The legitimate daughter of a family of officials and merchants married a poor top scholar and helped him rise to the position of Chancellor, only to bring disaster upon her maternal grandfather's entire family. Her legs were cut off, and the father, concubine, and half-sister who had once treated her well trampled over her to rise in status. She became the stepping stone that helped her half-sister leap into a prestigious marriage, then died miserably in a deserted courtyard. Reborn, she abandons her former ways, takes on the scoundrel and torments her half-sister, doing whatever it takes to defy fate and change her life.
...I hear you want to become the principal wife, Concubine? Well, I won't let you have your way! I hear my half-sister wants to marry into a prestigious family? I'll make sure she marries the wrong man! I hear that scoundrel wants to make the imperial examinations? I'll make sure you never set foot in government, doomed to be trampled into the dust for the rest of your life.
In her second life, she no longer yearns for romance, but unexpectedly meets again the man who saved her in her previous life. She originally planned to make him her protector, but things soon developed beyond her control. Everyone laughs at her for marrying Wanqi Ye, a violent, naturally disabled merchant, convinced she won't survive five days. Little do they know how exalted his position is: even the emperor must show him respect.
Years later, a certain prince asks, “My beloved consort, when did you fall for me?”
“Would you believe me if I said it was in my previous life?”
