Reborn, I Won’t Be a Love-Struck Fool: I’ll Leave the Child Behind and Marry the King

[Rebirth, Palace and Household Intrigue, Alternate History, Feel-Good Revenge, Punishing Scoundrels, Face-Slapping, Past and Present Lives]

In her previous life, Su Yuyan, the legitimate daughter of the General’s household, defied her parents’ objections and married up into the once-prosperous but now fallen Marquis Zhongyong’s household, wedding its eldest legitimate son, Shangguan Yuan.

She thought theirs was a true love that went both ways. Only after their wedding did she learn that the sweetness of their first meeting had all been part of a calculated scheme.

They stole Su Yuyan’s dowry. Once they had taken advantage of the Su family’s connections, they treated her as a pawn to be discarded. They not only slandered her as an adulteress, but also forced her to drink the poison known as Crane’s Crown Red, ruining her reputation and leaving her to die a miserable death.

After she died, they would not even give her a coffin. They wrapped her corpse in a straw mat and threw it onto a mass grave, where wild wolves devoured her until not a trace of her bones remained.

Her two sons were killed by a concubine.

Her maiden family, the household of General Su, was charged with treason. The entire family was slaughtered, and even their extended kin were put to death.

Meanwhile, Shangguan Yuan got his wish, winning the favor of the noble Seventh Princess and becoming the imperial son-in-law. The Marquis Zhongyong’s household enjoyed a lifetime of glory.

Reborn, Su Yuyan was determined to take her revenge.

She planned her every move, pretending to be weak while hiding her strength. She led the scoundrel and the marquis’s household around by the nose, driving them to ruin until they were grateful to her.

After taking her revenge, Su Yuyan left the marquis’s household with her sons.

Many laughed at her as a divorced woman, certain that her life could only get worse.

Unexpectedly, an imperial decree summoned her to the palace to become empress.

She said, “My hands are stained with blood. My body is no longer that of a sixteen-year-old girl. I am not worthy to be empress.”

He said, “In all the world, only you are worthy. Yanyan, I have waited a long time for you.”

The concubine screamed in a frenzy, “Why? Why has everything turned out this way after I came back to life? I refuse to accept this!”