You Forced Me to Raise Your Illegitimate Child, So I Married the Crown Prince and Had Your Entire Family Executed

[Traditional historical romance + rebirth + revenge on scumbags + devoted couple + secretly loves her + master of manipulation + male lead appears later] In her previous life, Lin Peiyu died a gruesome death at the hands of her adopted son and her husband’s mistress. As she lay dying, she uncovered a shocking plot within the marquis’s household. Her husband, who had never taken a concubine, was keeping a beautiful mistress outside the household. She was the late marquis’s flesh and blood. It turned out that years ago, the old madam had switched two babies at birth to win favor. Using the debt of a life-saving favor to coerce them, the old madam brought the mistress, Ye Qingqing, into the household. From then on, Ye Qingqing became everyone’s darling, and all the finest things were piled in her courtyard. Reborn, Lin Peiyu skillfully plays on people’s feelings, leading the entire marquis’s household around in circles until they turn against one another and meet their ends at each other’s hands. That night, after a man of noble birth ascends the throne as crown prince, he immediately marries the woman he has always cherished. On their wedding night, he looks at her with tearful eyes. “Yu’er, you really are my wife now?” The man is so excited he can’t sleep. Lin Peiyu cups his handsome face and says sweetly, “Yes, my husband.” She never expects that those words will soon leave her with a growing belly. After Gao Yuche and Lin Peiyu divorce, he can’t stop thinking about her. One day, at a banquet, he sees a powerful figure from the capital coaxing his ex-wife into eating a piece of osmanthus cake. That year, the empress gives birth to twins. The younger prince is sent to the imperial temple to pray for blessings, where his life is unbearably dull, until one day a sweet and adorable girl appears before him. To become worthy of her, he travels far to the frontier and builds up his own power. But when he returns to the capital, he finds that his home has been taken over! That adorable little girl has actually gotten married! [Note: The male lead doesn’t become crown prince until later in the story.]