
In her previous life, Shen Ning exhausted all her efforts to protect her younger siblings, vowing never to marry. However, after a lifetime of toil, she ended up raising two ungrateful wretches. Her younger brother was foolish and ignorant, marrying a wicked woman who pushed him to seize the family fortune. Her younger sister was brainlessly devoted to love, willingly sinking into depravity but hating Shen Ning for not supporting her romance.
Forced to leave home, her old illness relapsed due to overexertion, and she died on the coldest winter day. Reborn at eighteen, she looked at the pack of ungrateful wretches and burst into laughter. This time, she would play with them slowly. The family business she desperately protected would not be cheaply given to the ungrateful; she would recruit a son-in-law.
She was overwhelmed by the choices among the young talents, but the Empress herself packaged and delivered her perverse, wicked, and universally disliked dissolute younger brother to her.
She wanted to refuse, but the Empress gave her far too much.
On their wedding night, as she lifted the veil, she looked at her exceedingly beautiful husband.
Ah, this... seems like she actually gained...
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Calm, lazy, rational female lead VS outwardly reserved but inwardly passionate, scheming, love-brained male lead