On the day the Chu family was confiscated, my mother risked her life to save two young ladies of the Chu family and let my half-brother and me choose one of them as our wife.
I chose the legitimate daughter, once famed for her extraordinary talent, whose legs had been crippled.
My half-brother married the illegitimate daughter, notorious for her ill temper and disreputable reputation.
To clear the legitimate daughter of the charges against her, I traveled thousands of miles to find a doctor and spent our entire fortune to restore her to health.
In the end, I even helped her secure the position of the empire's richest merchant.
But on the day an imperial edict arrived, she brought me a bowl of poison.
"If you hadn't chosen me first back then, Mingze wouldn't have been beaten to death by her. You ruined our lives, so you deserve to go to hell!"
She forced the poison down my throat with her own hands, leaving me to die in agony.
When I opened my eyes again, I found myself back on the day Father told us to choose our wives.
This time,
I gave the choice to my gentle and refined, yet hypocritical, half-brother.
"You choose first, Brother..."
Is this the end?
Ah? Gone? [Stunned]