After Returning from a Political Marriage, the Whole City Wept at My Grave

(A tangled mix of love and hate at first, followed by furious revenge. High stakes from beginning to end.)

After the Turkic army was defeated, Commandery Princess Jinhua returned, having been forced into a political marriage for two years.

Her family thought she was ill-omened and would bring bad luck to the Meng family.

Her beloved despised her for being defiled and turned around to become engaged to her elder sister.

The neighbors mocked her, the noblewomen looked down on her, and filthy rumors about her spread everywhere.

She tried to find someone to marry, but the man gripped her waist tightly. "Can't you live without a man? Do you just want to die in bed every night?"

Meng Yunran was utterly resolved. From then on, she plunged into darkness. Whether she had to make a blood sacrifice of Great Zhou or be reduced to ashes, she would stop at nothing.

But when she was truly on the verge of death, these people panicked.

Her parents knelt without rising. "We were wrong. Your elder sister deceived us. Will you give us another chance?"

Her third younger brother slaughtered the Turks for her. "I'll kill a hundred for every one who wronged you, a thousand for every one who humiliated you. I'll repay you with their lives!"

Her beloved gave his own blood to save her. "The position of princess-consort has always been yours. As long as you come back, I'll give you anything."

Her enemy paved the road ahead with his own life. "I owe you a blood debt. Blood for blood. Would you accept my life in repayment?"

They wept and begged her to forgive them.

But for someone on the brink of death, forgiveness came too late.

Her expression was calm. "If you want to cry, do it farther away. Don't dirty my grave."