[Transmigration + Both Leads Are Chaste + Stepmother + Punishing Scumbags + Household Intrigue + Devoted Husband] (Fictional Historical Setting + Rise to Power)
Su Moli stayed up all night working on her thesis, then died from poisoning by “New Chinese-style toxicology elements” and transmigrated into the body of a pitiful girl who had been driven to her death by her own family. The first thing she heard upon opening her eyes was that she was to take her sister's place in an arranged marriage.
“Dear sister, do you really think Lord Li will marry a wooden beauty? He's only coaxing you into becoming his mistress.”
“Brother, are you going to make me walk down the aisle with this scar on my face?”
“From this day forward, the Su family has no second daughter. Even if you all die in the street one day, don't expect me to shed a single tear.”
Su Moli had always yielded to others and kept her head down, but the man who once promised to marry her became her sister's husband.
He even forced her to marry a man she'd never met.
“Second Young Master Xiao, have you ever heard of ‘borrowing a life’?”
“Save that ghost story for little children like Zhengzheng.”
The soft, chubby little child gazed at her anxiously.
“Will you be good to me? You won't get Father to beat me like other stepmothers do, will you?”
“No. I'll beat you myself.”
No one expected that in just a few short years, she would become a noblewoman at the pinnacle of society, admired by all.
Her remorseful sister, her mother playing the victim, and Xiao Qi: she indulged none of them and threw them all out.
Everyone said Xiao Qi was cold-hearted, but everyone also knew the great general was henpecked.
Only Su Moli knew that when night fell, the one who was actually afraid of his wife was herself…