[Historical romance, family intrigue and political schemes + reborn revenge and face-slapping + strong heroine and hero]
Li Junlan, the legitimate daughter of a military family, marries the heir-apparent Xiao Yixing after a scandal erupts at the Marquis’s estate.
After the wedding, her husband and mother-in-law treat her very differently than they did before.
Still, she clings to a glimmer of hope for a loving marriage and a harmonious family.
She humbles herself to serve her mother-in-law, manages the household, and raises her stepson. Still young, she wears herself down until her health collapses and her looks rapidly fade.
Then, one day, they encounter rebels on the road, and she takes a sword meant for her husband, crippling her left leg.
Her husband, meanwhile, earns the emperor’s favor for capturing the rebels and is appointed to the Grand Secretariat.
Bedridden, she thinks that her husband has won her the title of a Grand Secretariat official’s wife, and that her stepson has placed second in the imperial exams. Surely her years of hard work and sacrifice have not been in vain.
But when she falls gravely ill, both her husband and mother-in-law disappear without a trace.
When she sees her husband again, he is standing with her stepson and a pretty young woman. He says coldly, “Your father and brother are dead. No one from the Li military family is left to support you. Wan’er has been with me for years and borne me a child. You should give her the position of principal wife.”
After more than a decade of pouring her heart and soul into them, all she gets in return is a strip of white silk.
Clutching the ashes of her father and brother, she weeps blood and dies of grief. After her death, insects crawl over her body, and no one even comes to bury her.
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Reborn, she will never let herself be wronged again!
If a man has no love for me, I’ll leave him!
The heir-apparent of the Marquis’s estate and his wife are divorced.
Later, the usually cool and self-possessed heir-apparent of Yongning Marquis goes mad for some reason, weeping and apologizing in the street as he kowtows again and again, begging his former wife to take him back.
A tall, handsome man wraps an arm around the woman’s shoulders and looks down at him with a cold sneer. “If you keep shamelessly harassing her, I’ll have to break your arms and legs.”
[There’s a twist to what really happened in her past life]
It's okay, but I still feel a little suffocated... It's suitable to gain weight before looking at it.
A very nice book
This book is okay, recommended
A good book worth reading
Not bad, pretty good-looking, with a happy ending.