After Being Betrothed to a Powerful Minister, I Found Him Mourning Me

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After I Was Betrothed to a Powerful Minister by Imperial Decree, I Discovered He Was Mourning Me as His Dead Wife

The day the imperial edict granting a marriage arrived at the Shen Family, I was kneeling in the ancestral hall, being scolded.

My father cursed me for being ill-fated, saying I had brought death to three prospective matches in a row, and that even the dogs in the estate took detours when they saw me.

The moment the eunuch bearing the edict arrived, he changed his tune at once, smiling as if he had finally sold off a burning-hot yam at a high price.

“By His Majesty’s boundless grace, Shen Zhaoning, third daughter of the Shen Family, is hereby granted in marriage to Pei Yanzhi, Chief Grand Secretary, as his wife.”

Everyone in the hall sucked in a sharp breath.

Pei Yanzhi.

The powerful minister who entered court at nineteen, joined the Grand Secretariat at twenty-two, and now commanded such authority that even princes lowered their heads before him.

They said he had a fiancée in his heart, one who had died three years ago.

They also said that on the seventh day of every month, he shut his doors to all visitors and mourned her in his estate as if he were her widower.

And on the first night after I married into his household, in his study, I saw that memorial tablet.

Four words were carved upon it.

Beloved Late Wife, Zhaoning.