Marrying a Powerful Official Again: After Three Years as a Widow, My In-Laws Sent Me to the Bridal Sedan

Zhou Qingzhi was born into a merchant family. Her parents favored her legitimate younger sister, and to climb the social ladder, they married Zhou Qingzhi off to Zhao Rong, the sickly eldest son of the Zhao family, as a good-luck bride.

But on their wedding night, Zhao Rong coughed up blood and took a turn for the worse. He held on for half a year before he died.

From then on, Zhou Qingzhi was branded a bringer of bad luck. Her mother-in-law made life difficult, her sisters-in-law bullied her, and her brother-in-law coveted her. She swallowed her grievances for three years.

Then one day, the Zhao family fell. All the Zhao men were slaughtered, and her former sisters-in-law were taken back by their birth families.

Zhou Qingzhi thought she could finally escape the Zhao family’s cage. But after waiting and waiting, all she received from her own parents was a dagger.

“Kill yourself. As long as you’re alive, you’ll get in the way of your younger sister’s marriage.”

With a twist of her wrist, the blade cut her throat. Zhou Qingzhi gave her life back to her parents.

When she opened her eyes again, she had returned to three months before the Zhao family was convicted.

Zhou Qingzhi decided she would fight for a way to survive.

She attached herself to Yan Xing, heir to the Marquis of Changning, and they struck a fair bargain. Thus, she naturally became his concubine in name.

At court, power struggles raged; within the great manor, schemes and rivalries flourished.

She helped Yan Xing put his household in order and protect the marquis’s estate; Yan Xing stood up for her and granted her honor and status!