The Duchess's Daily Revenge

After being murdered and reborn, the Duchess refuses to play along * Shen Yanhuai had a miserable life in her previous one. Her husband was injured on official business and became impotent, so they adopted two boys and a girl from his clan. She raised all three children to adulthood. The eldest became the top scholar in the Hanlin Academy, the second became a rising military star, and her daughter became famous throughout the capital. But she worked herself sick, draining every last bit of strength from her body. Only as she lay dying did she learn that all three children were her husband's biological offspring. The children took turns feeding her poison to hasten her death and make room for their birth mother. Her husband looked impatient as he declared that he had always despised her and never felt anything for her. Yao Suxin smiled as she told Shen Yanhuai how hard she'd worked all these years and promised to arrange the grandest funeral for her after she died. Even the deaths of her father and brothers had been their doing. They wanted to break her spirit so she would have no choice but to let the Duke's household drain her dry. Shen Yanhuai died full of hatred, then was reborn. The eldest resented her because he hated studying, so she had someone take him out to cockfights and dog races. The second son caused trouble every day and was hopelessly spoiled, so she let him be indulged even more until he caused an even bigger disaster. The youngest daughter couldn't learn her manners, so Shen Yanhuai let her become the laughingstock of the capital. Her hypocritical mother-in-law, vicious sister-in-law, and unfaithful husband: she'd tear off their masks one by one and expose them for all the capital to see. To get revenge and save her family, she joined forces with Zhao Wuyou, the infamous but short-lived Eunuch of Nine Thousand Years. She'd intended it to be a mutually beneficial arrangement, planning to run once she'd used him. But even after she'd saved her family, taken revenge, divorced her husband, and become pregnant, she finally realized: There had never been any talk of mutual benefit. Zhao Wuyou had wanted her from the start. The beast drew in its fangs and bowed before her. Before meeting Shen Yanhuai, Zhao Wuyou thought, “The world is rotten through and through. I might as well stir up this muddy pond and bury the world with it.” After meeting Shen Yanhuai, Zhao Wuyou no longer wanted to die. “A Ying, the world is a beautiful place. Would you like to see it with me?”