The Black Lotus Heiress: The Grand Secretary Protects Her Every Day

Shen Qingshuang had spent more than a decade as the Chancellor's daughter, growing up alongside the princes. Calling her a princess among women would have been no exaggeration. But after she insisted on marrying the man she loved, the world turned upside down. On their wedding night, her husband, Lu Jingqi, personally made her swallow a Heart-Eating Gu. After three years in captivity, with fingers severed and bones broken, she became a bloodstained pawn on the board of power. The searing letter about her family's false accusation, her father and brothers on the brink of death, and Yumen Pass running out of food reached her heart. Then, on the day she confessed her crimes before the emperor, her childhood friend, the new emperor Xiao Chengyu, turned bloodshot eyes on her and sent her to the Music Bureau. In the Music Bureau's lightless depths, hooks of black iron pierced her bones, yet amid the humiliation inflicted by the powerful, she caught a glimpse of clues pointing to corruption in the grain transport system. Gu Yanzhi charged into her life with blood on his heels. Beneath a nine-petaled plum blossom mark lay an old centipede-shaped scar, the one she had clutched when she fell into the water as a child. He tore apart the people who had sullied her honor, and with a sweep of his sword severed the secret grain-transport contracts. Then he placed the bloodied blade in her hand. “Some revenge has to be taken by your own hand.”