Married at fifteen and gave birth at sixteen, Chen Xing’er’s husband was suddenly conscripted to defend the frontier.
Chen Xing’er brought her mother-in-law and two young children from the countryside to the county seat.
For eighteen years, she spent her days weaving and embroidering and her nights washing and mending clothes, until the work finally ruined her eyesight.
She never imagined that when the couple were finally reunited, her husband would have become a great general and taken a noblewoman as his new wife.
She wanted to leave, but someone couldn’t bear to let go of her reputation as a woman of loyalty, filial piety, chastity, and virtue.
So her husband locked her inside the estate, her mother-in-law ordered her to keep her head down and know her place, and her children resented her lowly birth.
After four years of fruitless struggle, she was finally drained dry by a pack of ungrateful wolves.
Given a new chance at life, Chen Xing’er has only two goals this time:
Make the Li family pay.
Live well for herself.
