“The day I was reborn, I lifted the lid of my own coffin with my bare hands.”
In her previous life, Wen Wanning married into Prince Jing’s household to bring good fortune to her family, only for her husband to force her to drink poison on their wedding night because his beloved had said, “She brings death to me.” When she opens her eyes again, she has been reborn at her husband’s funeral.
In the mourning hall, she looks at the “corpse” of Prince Jing, the man who poisoned her in her previous life, as a System prompt rings in her ears: [Bound to the “Master of Medicine and Poison” golden finger. Save your enemy and receive a rebirth secret art. Let him die, and you’ll perish within three days.]
Wen Wanning sneers, tears off her mourning clothes, and pulls out her hairpin to stab the “corpse” in the heart in front of everyone. “Since my husband is dead, I shall join him in the grave!”
The blade sinks three inches into his flesh. Prince Jing, Xiao Jue, suddenly grabs her wrist, his eyes blazing with fury. He has been “playing dead,” and he too has been reborn.
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The entire capital knows that Prince Jing’s consort has gone mad:
She saves a rebel leader and takes him in as her sworn younger brother, helps a beggar girl become the richest woman in business, and even invites Prince Jing’s sworn enemy, Xie Heng, the powerful Nine-Thousand-Year-Old, to her residence to “compare medical skills.”
Xiao Jue pins her between the medicine cabinets and grits his teeth. “You spend every night using acupuncture to treat him. Do you take me for a dead man?”
Wen Wanning twirls a poisoned needle and holds it to his throat. “If Your Highness dares touch someone of mine, I’ll make you a dead man for real tonight.”
Then an assassination attempt takes place at a palace banquet, and she falls unconscious after taking an arrow meant for Xie Heng.
The imperial physician trembles as he speaks. “The Princess Consort is two months pregnant...”
Xiao Jue crushes a medicine bowl in his bloodshot hand, only to watch Xie Heng tear off a human-skin mask in front of everyone, revealing a face almost identical to Prince Jing’s.
“Imperial Brother, when you stole my identity to marry her, did you ever think this day would come?”
The System suddenly shrieks: [Host, the child you’re carrying is the spirit fetus formed from the cup of wine that poisoned you in your previous life!]
Who is the male protagonist? Is it Xiao Chen versus Xiao Jue? Xiao Chen wasn't Wan Ning's son. Why did he become Wan Ning's husband later? 😱
The writing is solid and the plot is ups and downs. Very nice!