Taming the Hellion Prince

In the imperial capital marriages were arrangements between houses, and a wedding could go ahead with the groom swapped out at the hall. Shen Ruojin's betrothed ran off on the wedding day with her younger sister, the daughter of their father's concubine. Shen Ruojin married the man that sister had been promised to, Qin Lang. Qin Lang was the young Prince Qin, known through the capital for drink and women and doing as he liked. On the wedding night he left Shen Ruojin in the bridal room and went to the Fanghua Pavilion. People said he had married her for the sport of it and she laughed along with them. She had grown up in a general's household, could handle a sword, and what she wanted was out in the empire. She took her husband in hand. He went after the people who had wronged her, rose through the court, and put the power he gathered into her hands.