Reborn on the Day I Married a Jerk, I Married a Poor Scholar Instead

Her maternal grandfather, the General Who Guards the North, commands the northern frontier. Her father, a top military scholar, is both gifted and handsome. Liu Jiaojiao is the cherished daughter of a distinguished military family, adored by everyone around her. But after her father returns home wounded, a staged drowning leads her father and brothers to force her into marrying Jiang Chunwang, a village scholar who becomes a live-in son-in-law. Mistaking him for her savior, she spends fifteen years bowing and scraping before him, asking her grandfather to provide connections and her father to offer resources so that Jiang can rise step by step. Even when he humiliates her, takes her personal maid as a concubine, and even has her secure the position of secondary wife for the woman he loves, she bears it all. Then the Northern Army’s deployment plans are stolen, her grandfather’s entire family is slaughtered, and the emperor holds the Liu family responsible. She kneels and begs her husband to plead for them, but Jiang Chunwang’s cold words tear away the truth: the drowning was a setup, someone else saved her, the daily tonic she drank to protect her pregnancy was actually an abortifacient, and he even used her jade pendant to collude with rebels and steal the deployment plans! He resents the humiliation of becoming a live-in son-in-law and craves supreme power. The Liu family’s lives must be sacrificed as his stepping stone to the chancellorship, while she is nothing but the most foolish pawn in everyone’s eyes. After spitting out a mouthful of blood, Liu Jiaojiao is reborn on the very day she married Jiang Chunwang. In this life, the scoundrel and his lover will pay with their lives, and she will exact bloody revenge! She kicks out the scoundrel, protects her grandfather and the Liu family, seizes power and takes control of the court. She marries the person who truly saved her, and ultimately rises step by step to become empress. With the phoenix seal in her hands, she rules the imperial harem and shares a lifetime of deep love with the emperor.