A serious illness changed her cousin, the princess consort, completely. She began paying unusually close attention to Yan Wei's marriage and was in a hurry to marry her off.
A poor scholar, a scheming merchant, a disabled marquis...
Her cousin made them all sound wonderful, but every husband she picked for Yan Wei was harder to judge than the last.
Then one day, Yan Wei overheard her cousin arguing with her husband.
In her desperation, her cousin blurted out, "The prince favors my cousin so much. I think he wants to make me furious, then marry her into the family as his second wife!"
Only later did Yan Wei discover that her cousin had dreamed of the future.
In the dream, her cousin would die in childbirth, leaving behind a child, and Yan Wei would marry her cousin's husband as his second wife, becoming the child's maternal aunt...
That was why her cousin hated Yan Wei.
Yan Wei: "?"
"I grew up dependent on others, with a lowly background. Did I really want to debase myself by marrying him and becoming a stepmother?"
"The capital has no shortage of princes and noble sons."
She had greater ambitions. She would reach for a higher branch.
No one knew that Fifth Prince Yin Xuan often had the same strange dream. In it, he was attached to a mirror on the dressing table in Prince Jing's residence, reflecting the new wife's face day after day.
He watched as the woman tried to live carefully, only to suffer Prince Jing's icy cruelty.
He thought, if only he could make one hand appear, twist off that man's head, and then smooth the crease from her brow.
[Beautiful, scheming ambitious woman [emoji] possessive, obsessive hypocrite with a seductive demeanor]
[Somewhat of a crowd favorite, with romantic rivalries]
