After I was reborn, I immediately smashed the lavish jewelry I had prepared for my daughter.
I knew my husband, the chancellor, would give it all to his adopted daughter, Zhou Tang.
In my previous life, Zhou Tang wore that jewelry to hold a grand coming-of-age ceremony at the chancellor's estate.
Everyone in the capital mistook her for the chancellor's legitimate daughter.
But those gifts had clearly been prepared for my daughter's coming-of-age ceremony by me and my aunt, the empress dowager.
Realizing something was wrong, I hurried back to the estate.
I arrived just in time to catch my husband and the wet nurse celebrating Zhou Tang's birthday.
The wet nurse was wearing my title-bearing robes and welcoming guests hand in hand with my husband.
Zhou Tang called the wet nurse Mother and asked her to pin up her hair.
Only then did I understand that Zhou Tang was the illegitimate daughter my husband had with the wet nurse.
I stormed into the estate to clear my daughter's name and my own.
But my husband called me a madwoman and ordered his men to tie me up and burn me alive.
My daughter rushed in to save me, but the three of them beat her until she was gravely injured.
I fell to my knees and begged my husband to save our daughter.
My husband sneered as he set the fire: "It's all your fault, you two sluts. You kept me from giving those mother and daughter the status they deserve."
"Now that you're dead, our family can finally be together."
My daughter and I both perished in the flames.
When my aunt learned of my horrific death, her grief became so great that she fell ill and never recovered.
When I woke again, I was back on the day of my daughter's coming-of-age ceremony.
