Bai Yuhuan was sensitive to the cold, so she lived for years with her maternal grandparents in the south. When she finally returned home, she found that the family had acquired an adopted younger sister.
Her adopted sister lived in her courtyard and wore her jewelry and clothes. Her father and brothers doted on the girl, and even her fiancé fell in love with her.
Unable to bear it, Bai Yuhuan made a scene. Her fiancé’s family called her insane, broke off the engagement, and married her adopted sister instead. Her father and brothers accepted this without protest.
Her mother stood up for her, so her father and brothers joined forces to kill her mother, then killed her as well.
After the mother and daughter died, the adopted sister’s mother joined the household, and the family lived together in harmony.
Bai Yuhuan’s spirit was bound, unable to pass on.
She watched the Marquis’s household fall into ruin and be confiscated, and everyone die. Then the chains in the spirit-binding well were cut, and she was reborn.
During all those years as a ghost, she finally learned why her father and brothers had abandoned her, their own flesh and blood, and obeyed their adopted sister in everything: the adopted sister was their real family.
Her mother and she had both been kept in the dark. Her mother had believed the eldest brother was her firstborn son and spoiled him beyond measure, while finding fault with Bai Yuhuan at every turn.
She never knew that the eldest son was actually the child of her husband and his “true love,” a woman he kept outside the household. And because Bai Yuhuan fought back against her eldest brother, he came to hate her.
Bai Yuhuan was in no hurry, and she no longer yearned for the faint, elusive love of her family. She would take her time, wait for the right moment, and pull the rug out from under them to save the Marquis’s household and its estate.
Just as everything was going according to plan, an unexpected turn of events nearly cost her life because someone had a face similar to hers. Forced to change her original plan, she entered the fray herself and played along, all to gamble for the position of empress.
When everything was settled, she wanted to leave.
He tried to stop her, and at last she told him what she had kept hidden in her heart for years.
I like short, clean stories
You can also see that the heroine is able to stand up, but the misunderstanding is solved and the ending is happy.