short series

The First Lady Dances Alone

share time: 2025-07-15 02:30:11

As the nation's most powerful minister coughs blood in his sickbed, spectators await his wife's desperate pleas for imperial physicians. Instead, she shreds their marriage contract in court, smiling brightly as spring peach blossoms. After fifteen years in a marriage in name only—managing his household and navigating politics while enduring public scorn and his illegitimate children—she ignites her past. With secret dowry funds, she buys half the capital's commercial street. When the minister storms her rouge shop, she gilds floral ornaments before a mirror: 'Rather than fetching your sweetheart to the palace now that you're healed, you meddle with an ex-wife's livelihood?'

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