Name: The Vicious Empress Dowager Was Enslaved for Three Years. Reborn, She Goes on a Killing Spree
Author: Ji Anruo

Synopsis

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In her previous life, Shen Jinshu became a widow at a young age. She raised her young son and helped him ascend the throne.

After finally raising her children and educating them into capable adults, her eldest son became a promising young emperor of Rong, beloved by his people.

Her third daughter lived a happy life with a general.

Her fourth daughter became the honored Crown Princess of a neighboring kingdom.

She thought the worst was finally behind her, but before she died, her eldest son had her locked up in the Laundry Bureau as a slave, and her third child stabbed her to death.

After death, her soul drifted above them.

Only then did she learn that the husband who had supposedly died ten years earlier was still alive, and that the children she had devoted her life to raising were not hers.

They were illegitimate children born to the late emperor and his widowed sister-in-law.

Reborn into a new life,

she would no longer pour all her heart and effort into those wretched brats.

She watched coldly as her eldest son fell for a scheming woman. She made sure he was tied to her for good, doomed to have no heirs, while he cried that his beloved was a spy from an enemy kingdom.

Her third daughter had her fate altered by the Maoshan Daoist she loved and became a medicine slave at the Hall of Chaste Women. She begged her mother for help. Get lost, you ungrateful wretch!

Her fourth daughter married beneath her station to a general, who cast her aside in favor of his concubine. She miscarried and wept as she begged her mother to intervene.

What a joke. Why would she help? This was the fate those illegitimate, ungrateful wretches deserved.

As for the scumbag husband who had supposedly died, hiding in the shadows, he begged for forgiveness and asked to get back together, saying he had made a mistake and mistaken the scheming woman for her.

Ha. She stabbed him to death...

Shen Jinshu was busy taking revenge, while treating her second son and his wife well.

On her path of vengeance, she caught the attention of King Xuanyou.

Other names

The Empress Dowager, Once a Laundry Maid, Is Reborn在浣衣局当奴婢的太后重生了Alternate title on Fanqie

Stats

284Chapters

1.9kReads · 30 days

193kReads · all time

186Shelves

7.3Score

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