Living Off My Wife While Acting the Part? I'm Done Being the Top Scholar's Wife

She married a poor scholar with a vast fortune, spent every last coin, and secured him a promising future.

Later, his career flourished, but on the very night he became chief councilor, he slaughtered her entire family.

As she lay dying, he coldly revealed the truth.

"Shen Nian, I hate you. If you hadn't insisted on marrying me, Fu'er wouldn't have died a horrible death."

In this life, he even brought a pregnant prostitute to provoke her. "Shen Nian, you're jealous and unfilial. You're a merchant's daughter, talentless and worthless, and unfit to be the mistress of the Gu family. Taking you as a concubine is already my greatest kindness."

Shen Nian sneered, broke off the engagement, picked up her pen, and entered the examination hall, taking the top scholar title right out from under him.

In this world, they all say women can't hold government office. She is determined to swim against the current.