The divorce decree arrived with gold—twelve years reduced to four dismissive words.

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"Character Profiles
Shen Mingzhu (Lady Shen)
Cast out after twelve years as the Marquis's wife with nothing but divorce papers and a chest of gold. Armed with her late mother-in-law's cryptic inheritance—a military token, three deeds to abandoned relay stations, and a pair of gold bracelets—she ventures alone into the harsh Northern Border. What begins as desperate survival evolves into shrewd enterprise as she transforms wasteland into a thriving settlement, proving a woman's path need not depend on any man.
Han Zheng (Northern Pacification Marquis)
A fifth-rank officer who married above his station, he rose to Marquis through his wife's sacrifices—her dowry funding his career, her devotion sustaining his household. Success breeds entitlement: he takes a second wife from the Princess Royal's family and discards his first with cold efficiency. When his new bride's family plots treason and his reputation crumbles, he discovers too late that loyalty cannot be bought back with regret.
Zhao Yuerou (The Second Wife)
The Princess Royal's daughter who enters the Marquis Manor like a conquering army, ripping out bamboo groves to plant her beloved plum blossoms. Elegant, entitled, and ruthlessly ambitious, she orchestrates Lady Shen's humiliation with practiced cruelty. But her family's treasonous schemes—tampering with military provisions to frame the Marquis—drag her from the heights of privilege into the depths of the Jiaofang Bureau, a fate she never imagined possible."

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