Throne of Retribution: Her Second Life, Their Last Breath

At the hunting grounds the princes wrote the names of the capital's noble daughters on targets and shot at them, under the rule that a prince would take as his consort whichever name he hit. All five princes hit Shen Yuetan. Shen Yuetan chose the Crown Prince, Gu Ming, whom she had wanted since childhood. On the night of the wedding Gu Ming put her older half-sister Shen Mingzhu in the bride's place, and Shen Yuetan was made a servant in the house and laughed at by everyone who heard. The other princes dropped their manners with her after that. The shooting game had been staged by the five of them from the start, with Shen Mingzhu as the point of it. They broke her arms and legs and threw her into a dry well. She opened her eyes on the day the princes came to the Shen house to ask for her. She chose the Crown Prince again, and the household waited to see her humiliated a second time. The day before the wedding the Emperor issued a decree naming a new Empress. The princes went to the palace to offer their congratulations and found Shen Yuetan in the Emperor's arms.