The Crown Prince's Consort Is Hard to Placate

On the night of her proxy marriage, Emperor Yinning suddenly dies. Ye Lanzhou is branded a “disaster to the nation,” and even her own family wants her dead. To escape being buried alive as a royal sacrifice, she reaches out to her powerful younger brother-in-law for help. “Should I personally remove this chastity mark from my sister-in-law?” Beneath the brocade blindfold, his thin lips curl with mockery as he closes in on her step by step. Her stepmother murdered Ye Lanzhou’s birth mother. Her stepsister shoved her into the palace to save herself. And her father, desperate to preserve his reputation for incorruptibility, forced Ye Lanzhou to be buried with the dead emperor. She’s endured enough. Back at the Ye residence, she won’t let anyone bully her again. Xie Chengyan watches with cool indulgence as she overturns the ancestral shrine and throws the Ye household into chaos. But when the Ye family goes to report her to the authorities, he feigns confusion. “What Ye Fourth? She is clearly my princess consort.” [Cold, ruthless prince × Black-Lotus physician] Two mad strategists tempt each other. She burns down houses and kills her kin; he hands her the blade and sets the fire.