Favoring a Concubine and Abandoning the Wife? Reborn, Who Would Still Be the Marchioness’s Mistress?

In her previous life, Shen Zhiyi, the daughter of a merchant, married into the steadily declining Anyuan Marquis household.

Over fourteen years of marriage, she poured her heart and soul into restoring the family to its former standing. Her husband became a marquis, and their eldest son married a princess and became her consort.

Then her adopted daughter, eager to climb higher, reported the household for selling illicit salt.

The entire Shen family was executed, and on his wedding night, her eldest son burned her alive in one fell swoop.

Only as she lay dying did she understand what had led to this.

The adopted son’s expression before her death remained vivid in her memory. He looked at Shen Zhiyi with pity. “Only your death will make things better for everyone. Mother, may you rest in peace.”

As Shen Zhiyi looked at him pleadingly, he calmly blocked her last chance of survival.

In the end, she closed her eyes, leaving behind a tear of regret.

If she could live again, she would never spare any of these people. When she opened her eyes once more, she found herself back at the age of twenty, when everything was just beginning.

She sneered. This time, she would respect other people’s choices and stop meddling.

…

After throwing the Anyuan Marquis household into utter chaos, she slipped away and let the world believe she was dead.

In the blink of an eye, she became the daughter of the prime minister who had been raised in a temple. On the day her marriage to Yuchi Ling was being discussed, the notorious and ruthless Duke of Shun looked at her with devotion.

“Aman, I beg you to take pity on me. It is the only thing I ask of this world.”