Chen Wanqing was reborn on the day before her wedding, when her grandmother wanted to beat her to death for being pregnant after losing her virginity, and Zhou Ranfang urged her to marry the child’s “father,” Liang Tingjian.
In her previous life, Liang Tingjian and Zhou Ranfang switched her son with another child and let him starve to death. They also caused her father and elder brother to die tragically, took the Chen family’s military power, and paved Liang Tingjian’s path to success over their corpses!
Given another life, she stood at the turning point of her fate...
Inside the family, she faced a ruthless grandmother who wanted to clear the way for the Third Branch to inherit her father’s title and official post, and Zhou Ranfang, who repaid kindness with treachery and was determined to steal her place!
Outside, Liang Tingjian coveted the Chen family’s military power and planned to force her into marriage!
And others meant to use the Chen family as a stepping-stone to the throne!
To protect her loved ones, Chen Wanqing turned her attention to Xiao Xin, the powerful eunuch who controlled the Embroidered Uniform Guard.
The blade in his hand had slain meritorious officials above and court ministers below. His notoriety was such that the entire court trembled at his name.
But Chen Wanqing knew that in her previous life, he had stayed firmly in power by playing both sides between the emperor and the vassal princes who rose up to fight for the throne...
And she was in need of a sharp blade to cut through the brambles and turn her fate around.
“Lord Xiao, would you be interested in a deal?”
Xiao Xin, who had been plotting for a long time, was delighted to oblige. “As you wish!”
After they married, Xiao Xin, who should have treated her with polite respect, became clingy to an absurd degree. Chen Wanqing was bewildered. “Aren’t you a eunuch?”
Xiao Xin put an arm around her waist and kissed her cheek. “Why don’t you find out for yourself, my lady?”
Everyone waited for a laugh: a disgraced noblewoman, pregnant before marriage, and a ruthless eunuch pretending to be a father. What a match made in heaven!
But those who had been waiting to laugh couldn’t bring themselves to.
The twins, whose father was supposedly unknown, looked exactly like Xiao Xin?
Chen Wanqing, who had lost her reputation, was actually made a county princess?
And the eunuch Xiao Xin had become the new emperor’s favorite and been made a duke?