[Awake, she commands the world; asleep, she rests upon a beauty’s lap]
Xu Chen had always believed her father to be an impartially just man.
She considered herself fortunate: though born a woman, she had been given the opportunity to compete on equal terms with her brothers for control of the family business.
That was until Xu Chen, with thunderous force, defeated one brother after another and prepared to ascend to the throne of the family enterprise, only to be sent to a psychiatric hospital by her own father.
Only then did Xu Chen realise that, from the very beginning, she had been nothing more than a whetstone—used to hone the true heir in her father’s eyes: his beloved son!
And for a woman—a mere whetstone—to dare covet the family’s authority was nothing short of an unthinkable act of presumption!
After a decade in the psychiatric hospital, Xu Chen had become brutal and vindictive due to drug abuse.
She died in the hospital following a mistake made by a young nurse.
What she never imagined was that upon her death, Xu Chen would be transported to a bizarre matriarchal world, and be handed a script identical to that of her previous life.
Born as the Crown Princess, she was used by the Emperor as a public scapegoat, serving to shield and temper the true heir in her eyes: the Sixth Princess, born to her true love, the Imperial Consort.
Xu Chen: Hah—
You’re all asking for it.
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In the year the Crown Princess turned twenty, Lu Qiuci was chosen as her consort and married into the Eastern Palace.
Imperial decrees could not be defied, but when he thought of the Crown Princess—cruel and heartless, who took pleasure in flogging people and had already beaten several young attendants to death—Lu Qiuci felt a chill run from head to toe, his heart growing utterly bleak.
While other newlyweds, upon entering into marriage, thought only of how to live in harmony with their wives, he thought only of how to ensure his own survival.
On their wedding night, the Crown Princess did not even touch him. Lu Qiuci thought despairingly:
He was finished…
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