Spring Branches Fall in the Chilly Autumn

[A fallen courtesan × a scheming prince: a dual-strong revenge story full of satisfying face-slapping] She spent every last coin helping him study, but he passed the imperial exam as the top scholar and married a princess! Jiang Hanqiu emptied her savings to send her lover, Song Zi'ang, to the capital for the exams. In return, she got three thousand taels of gold as “repayment” and the words, “How could a woman from a brothel ever be worthy of a top scholar?” Heartbroken, she bought her freedom and left the brothel with nothing. By chance, she rescued a mysterious mute man who had been badly injured and fallen into the water. Hoping to find a way forward, she took him to the capital, where she witnessed her scum ex and his princess wife in a picture-perfect romance. And, more absurdly, the “steward's son” she'd picked up by the roadside turned out to be the Ninth Prince himself! He pretended to be mute and played the poor man, but when it came to her, he pressed closer at every turn: “How about repaying me for saving your life by giving yourself to me?” She opened a shop to earn a living, but the princess wouldn't let up. When she exposed Jiang Hanqiu's past as a courtesan in public, the Ninth Prince immediately declared, “This is my wife!” When the princess burned down the brothel and killed her sisters, Jiang Hanqiu charged straight into the princess's residence, whip in hand, invoking her title as princess consort: “Today, blood will be paid for with blood!” From abandoned wife to princess consort, she kicks her scumbag ex to the curb and tears apart the fake innocent. This time, the phoenix rises from the ashes, and she's on a rampage!