In her previous life, Sui Xin married into the Chen family, the poorest family in the village, against her will, all to arrange a marriage for her brother back home.
There was no bride price, no wedding feast, not even a new set of clothes. All she got were a father-in-law with tuberculosis, a mother-in-law with a broken leg, a dark and scrawny sister-in-law, a plot of land on the back hill, and a husband who vanished after their wedding night and never came back.
Sui Xin willingly cared for her in-laws, raised her sister-in-law, and gave the Chen family a granddaughter. Every day, she either hoed the fields on the back hill or cut grass in the mountains to feed the pigs. She rose earlier than the chickens and went to bed later than the owls, working herself to the bone for others just to earn enough food to feed the whole family.
She single-handedly pulled the Chen family out of poverty, saw her father-in-law peacefully to his end, helped her crippled mother-in-law walk again, sent her sister-in-law to high school, and watched her daughter grow up. She thought their good days were finally about to begin.
Then her daughter disappeared. She searched frantically everywhere, until her mother-in-law finally heard something and took her to a village in the neighboring county.
Overjoyed at the thought of finally finding her daughter, she was instead locked in a cellar by an old bachelor.
She managed to escape just as he was about to force himself on her, but fell off a cliff and died.
She drifted back to the Chen home as a wisp of smoke, only to learn that her mother-in-law had sold her, and had sold her daughter too. Her sister-in-law, whom she'd raised, and her good sister-in-law had even helped count the money.
Reborn, she left behind the whole family of ungrateful mouths to feed and charged off to the army with her daughter.
Why? To shatter someone's dream of becoming a son-in-law worthy of a wealthy bride, of course.
The author wrote it very well. The heroine is sober and capable after being reborn. She is now curious about whether her husband had any hidden secrets in his previous life. She seems to have a bit complicated feelings towards him in this life. Could it be that she is a master of disguise? Keep up the good work, author, it's so well written.