In her first life, Sheng Zhi Wan humbled herself to marry beneath her rank for the sake of love. She poured her entire dowry into her husband’s household, composed military treatises so he could repel foreign enemies, and drafted policy essays so he could rise step by step in the court. Everyone said that the Qi clan’s heir, Qi Shu Xian, was brilliant beyond measure. She, a princess who understood only affairs of the heart, could marry such a man, and thought to herself: [I must have been blessed by the heavens].
After she is reborn, Sheng Zhi Wan vows that the lovestruck fool can be someone else, but never again her. Her husband takes a concubine into the manor, so she climbs the wall and walks away. Her mother-in-law orders her to raise the concubine’s child, so she invites her father-in-law’s pregnant mistress into the residence as a fitting return gift. Two elder sisters-in-law and a younger brother-in-law eat her food and spend her silver. Since they show no gratitude, she makes them spit back every single coin.
Qi Shu Xian never imagined that Sheng Zhi Wan could be so “petty.” It was only a concubine, and even if that woman carried his child, she could never surpass the principal wife. How had matters escalated all the way to divorce? What respectable family would accept a discarded wife? He decides to wait calmly for the day she comes back to beg for a return.
In the capital, the most notorious scoundrel of the powerful Shang Hang Yu trading firm guards a secret he intends to carry to the grave. Yet on the day Sheng Zhi Wan lowers herself and bends down before him, he decides that even death would be a price worth paying.
The early chapters unfold at a measured pace. There is wall-climbing and other improper conduct, and the path to divorce progresses slowly and deliberately. If these elements are not to your taste, please proceed with caution and feel free to choose another story.