She had not married him expecting fidelity. That would come later - the marriage, the man, the particular education of discovering that your most precise calculations cannot account for the variable of your own heart. That would come later, and it would cost her considerably more than she had budgeted. On the night she arrived in Jinling, Shen Yao knew only this: she had eight silver coins, a jade pin, and a plan that she fully intended to keep. She kept most of it. The parts she did not keep are the story. This is the story of a woman who knew precisely what she wanted - and what wanting cost her. Set in the final years of the Yong Dynasty, The Wife He Could Not Tame is a historical romance of arranged marriages and political intrigue, of what women build when the law gives them nothing to build with, of two people who resist each other across years until resistance becomes its own kind of devotion.
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