The Young Lady Is Sweet as Tea, and the Capital's Powerful Men All Bow to Her

【Scheming villainess + rivalry between women + one-on-one, both leads faithful + a remorseful hero’s long pursuit + the aloof prince brought down from his pedestal】 After a lifetime of dreams, Shen Qingli finally learned that she was a disposable character in a storybook, there only to make the prime minister’s legitimate daughter, Shen Yuyao, shine. She was framed for trying to seduce Shen Yuyao’s fiancé at the banquet where Shen Yuyao was meeting potential suitors. The powerful men pursuing Shen Yuyao spread rumors about her until her reputation was ruined and no one dared marry her. Her gentle, refined aunt even knocked her unconscious one night, staged a suicide, and drowned her in the lotus pond... Shen Qingli had always avoided conflict and followed the rules, yet this was the brutal fate she met! Given a new life after her dream, Shen Qingli was determined to cast off the constraints placed on a noblewoman and become a villainess who put herself first! She seduced her cousin, the prime minister’s dazzling, principled top scholar, and brought every powerful man who had helped Shen Yuyao ruin her to heel! Once the supposedly useless young lady of the prime minister’s household stopped hiding her brilliance, everyone saw just how dazzling she was. Even the aloof crown prince, who had once called her affected and delicate and treated her as if she were nothing, began looking at her differently... On the day she was to marry her cousin, that cold, self-controlled crown prince even stormed into her bridal sedan to steal her away. His eyes were wilder than ever. “Shen Qingli, if you dare marry him, I’ll bathe the prime minister’s residence in blood!” Later, he repeatedly lowered his voice and humbled himself, begging for her affection by her ear. “Qingli, use me if you want. Even if you want the whole realm, I’ll take it for you. All right?”