Sharp-tongued, unhinged heroine + double-standard, formidable mother-in-law + sweet on the outside, dark within + falling for him on her own + love after marriage
Shen Laofuren's beloved youngest daughter died on her fourteenth birthday, sacrificing her life to save her and taking a band of horse thieves down with her.
Three years later, at a flower-viewing banquet,
Luo Li, who had been named a princess for saving the emperor, was grabbed by Shen Laofuren, who wept and called her her good daughter.
Luo Li mocked her for not recognizing her. Shen Laofuren fainted from grief, and, by imperial order, Luo Li pretended to be Shen Jianing and entered the Shen residence to comfort Shen Laofuren, who was sick with longing for her daughter.
Seeing her obediently return, Shen Laofuren was delighted and smug. She didn't realize her gentle, filial daughter was dead, and that the one who had come back was a shameless, rebellious menace.
As Luo Li secretly investigates the truth behind the destruction of her sect, she wreaks havoc in the Shen residence under the pretense of having lost her memory.
Her chaotic revenge accidentally exposes the people causing trouble behind the scenes.
Just as the investigation starts making progress, Shen Laofuren threatens to kill herself unless Luo Li marries beneath her station and leaves the capital. She promises to accompany her and settle at the ancestral home.
Just then, an imperial decree of betrothal arrives.
Meng Zhaowan, the matriarch of the marquis's household, has been reborn.
In her previous life, her eldest daughter-in-law, Shen Jiayi, who had supposedly volunteered to marry into the family and bring it good fortune, caused the household's ruin and her family's deaths.
This time, she requests an imperial decree of marriage ahead of everyone else, choosing Luo Li because in her previous life Luo Li had loved her eldest son unwaveringly, and later helped the marquis's household secretly dispose of the bodies despite their past enmity.
Looking at the investigation pointing toward the heavily guarded marquis's household, Luo Li decides to enter the lion's den and investigate from within.
When Luo Li marries into the marquis's household, the Shen family, desperate to be rid of the troublemaker who wreaks havoc at home, grits its teeth and scrapes together a lavish dowry for her.
The Shen family expects to use someone else to kill her, but they wait and wait in vain.
The imagined battle of wits between husband and wife never happens, nor does Luo Li fall ill and die suddenly. Instead, she returns with her reborn mother-in-law, the two of them joining forces to wreak bloody havoc...
After Becoming a Chatterbox Side Character, the Mad Female Lead Joined a Monastery
After Being Reborn, She Became the Nation's Richest Woman Through Farming
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