My Husband and His Adopted Son Deceived Me, So I Reunited Them in Death

On their wedding night, her husband coldly told her, “I married you at my parents’ behest, not because I wanted to,” and then neglected her for years. She never knew why, but she still hoped to have a child. After a serious illness, a doctor told her she would never be able to bear children. Six years into her marriage at the Marquis’s residence, she had no child of her own, so she was pressured into adopting a boy from the Gu clan. When her adopted son made a name for himself and passed the highest imperial examination at sixteen, her health had been ruined by years of strain, and she was on the verge of death. She regarded him as her own child and felt that her life had, all things considered, been complete. But as she lay dying, she heard her beloved younger half-sister mock her: “Ha! Sister, did you really think we were close?” Then she heard her adopted son say, “You think you deserve to have me call you Mother? Everything you have was stolen from my mother! She’s my mother. You’re nothing but an adoptive mother.” And her husband, Gu Wenxing, told her, “You’ve occupied the position of principal wife for years. It’s time to give it back to Yaoyao.” Xu Jinsheng was already at the end of her strength. His words enraged her to death. All those years of painstaking effort had been built on lies. Even the child was her half-sister’s. She had treated that sister as her own and trusted her completely, often inviting her to stay at the marquis’s residence for company, never realizing she was paving the way for their affair! Perhaps Heaven took pity on her and let her be reborn. She decided to make this treacherous pair’s wish come true. Xu Mengyao wanted to be the principal wife of the marquis’s household? Then she would make her a concubine instead! Gu Wenxing wanted to be a dazzling young heir? She would leave him in disgrace, never to recover! A child born to a mistress had been switched at birth and passed off as the legitimate son of the Marquis of Guangping. She would make him a son of a concubine instead. This time, without her help, she would see how these people could ever rise to glory by stepping on her!