Defying the Rules, Your Highness, Please Be Gentle

Jiang Ruoling died by suicide, slitting her own throat in prison.

She lay quietly in a pool of blood, her hairpins and jewelry scattered, her dress stained red.

The eldest princess of Jiang died without a sound. As she withered away like a flower, the consort she had loved with all her heart and her former friends were cherishing her younger sister like a precious jewel. When the powerful fall, everyone turns against them, and no one cared whether she lived or died.

Reborn, the proud and breathtakingly beautiful princess would no longer pine for the consort who had cast her aside like trash, nor exhaust herself protecting her younger brother, the prince.

Instead, she defied convention and pushed the cold, stern shadow guard down onto the bed.

Behind scarlet silk curtains, the carved bed rocked. After their passionate encounter, Jiang Ruoling immediately kicked him off the bed.

Watching the shadow guard abandon his usual coldness, his face bashful as he carefully lifted her jade-like feet, eyes red, he said, "Your Highness, this servant begs you to show him mercy."

The beautiful princess raised her chin haughtily. Before she could deign to answer, the mad dog she had tamed grew bolder than ever. In countless lonely, empty nights, he would press himself against her with domineering insistence and take her again and again...

Until the consort caught the lowborn shadow guard in bed with his own eyes, pleasuring his wife. His eyes reddened with jealousy. "Was all the affection the Grand Princess showed me these years just an act?"

But right in front of the consort, the shadow guard pulled the Grand Princess into his arms and gave him a provocative look.

Jiang Ruoling merely said coldly, "Consort, submit your petition for a divorce."