The Abandoned Wife Is Reborn: Who Cares About That Jerk?

In her previous life, she was the daughter of a wealthy merchant in the capital, a peerless beauty promised by her father to the son of an old friend. On her wedding night, her husband was conscripted and sent off to war. Four years later, the scoundrel passed off her cousin’s achievements as his own and returned with a new wife, treating her as an obstacle in his way. To please his mistress, he and his family plotted to accuse her of adultery, plundered her enormous dowry to pave his path to promotion, won over her sister-in-law, seized her parents’ property, and drove them away. After having her beaten to death, they left her corpse in the street. Even the good mother-in-law she had served for four years and her sister-in-law personally joined in, severing the tendons in her hands and feet. When locusts struck and refugees flooded the land, the scoundrel and his mistress used her dowry to open a porridge kitchen and perform charitable deeds, earning widespread praise. The mistress was even granted a noble title, while the scoundrel’s official career flourished. Afraid she might reveal the truth, they cut out her tongue and blinded her, then dumped her where refugees and beggars could trample, abuse, and torment her. In the end, the mistress had her minced into human-meat dumplings and served to the beggars at a ruined temple. Reborn, she is determined to grind to dust everyone who once harmed, humiliated, and framed her.