After My Whole Family Was Slaughtered, I Married My Archrival

[A sweet-faced but secretly twisted, obsessive portrait artist x a cold, deranged Assistant Minister of the Court of Judicial Review; a couple bound by mutual hatred + mystery and criminal investigations + revenge + strong female lead + bad ending] Shen Duqing had only gone out for a short while. By the time she returned, she had become the daughter of a traitor accused of betraying the country. She fell from heaven to hell, from the daughter of the prime minister to a murderer. Her parents died horribly before her eyes to help her escape. Her elder brother was killed when his throat was slit for shutting the gate. Her family’s bodies hung before the door as the world cursed them, while the true culprit basked in a fine reputation. Shen Duqing could not accept it. Why should the innocent die while the hypocrites sat high above everyone else? Standing before her enemy, Shen Duqing raised her blade without hesitation. She would uncover the truth behind the Shen family’s wrongful conviction. “Pei Ji, you have to marry me!” She carried a rooster into the Pei household and became her enemy’s wife. Entering the game as a portrait artist, she planned every move and made herself indispensable to Pei Ji, Assistant Minister of the Court of Judicial Review. From a bride offered up as a sacrifice to a murder at the Hibiscus Pavilion, she followed the clues thread by thread and discovered that everything was connected. Even the Shen family’s wrongful conviction had not been a simple case of a political rival framing them.