You Won't Marry Me Because You Favor Your Widowed Sister-in-Law? After Slapping You, I'll Marry a Powerful Official

[Peerless Medicine and Poison + Face-Slapping Wish Fulfillment + Scumbag Gets His Comeuppance + Male Lead Fights to Win Her] On the eve of her wedding, Song Yuntang picked the lock on Pei Zhao's study and found a woman's undergarment that didn't belong to her. That was when she learned that the faceless goddess in Pei Zhao's paintings had never been her. It was his widowed sister-in-law, Shen Shuning. Before her eyes, the self-disciplined gentleman who always followed the rules did one outrageous thing after another to protect his sister-in-law and her daughter. Song Yuntang threw that half-baked marriage into the trash! Three years ago, desperate to escape her predicament, she had decided that marrying Pei Zhao was her best option. To become a Pei wife, she had hidden her talents and polished herself into the perfect lady of a noble household for three years. Yet in the end, she had become a laughingstock. Now that she had called off the engagement without hesitation, everyone said Song Yuntang had ruined the only good hand she had left. Even Pei Zhao declared, “Who else would marry you besides me? You should know when to stop throwing a tantrum.” Song Yuntang merely smiled coldly. She no longer cared about knowing her place in the inner household. She wanted only to climb higher, step by step. When the heads of noble clans prostrated themselves at her feet, and members of the imperial family came bearing mountains of gold to beg for her help, the world finally understood that Song Yuntang had never needed anyone to rely on! And when Pei Zhao knelt before her with red eyes, begging her to look back at him, the impossibly noble man at her side had already pulled her possessively into his embrace. “She's the woman I cherish above all else. No one is worthy of even a glance from her!”