Reborn Alongside My Husband, He Marries Down While I Marry Up

In my previous life, on the day I married General Xiao Heng, my half-sister, Wen Lian'er, knelt before me in front of everyone and begged, “Back then, Sister, you forced me to serve the general. Now I’m carrying his child!” “Lian'er doesn’t ask for a title! I only beg you to be kind and let me marry into the family too!” “Sister, the child is innocent! If you refuse, you’ll be forcing Lian'er to die!” The claim that I had forced her to marry the general in my place was completely false, and I refused Wen Lian'er's request. Xiao Heng didn't question me either. But Wen Lian'er hired bandits to waylay my bridal sedan halfway there and switch places with me. Instead, the bandits changed their minds and raped and murdered her. After Wen Lian'er's death, her birth mother, Concubine Zheng, accused my mother of driving her daughter to her death. My father favored the concubine. He had my mother beaten in public, then confined her to an estate, ignoring Concubine Zheng's abuse of her until my mother died a miserable death. I had just become pregnant, and begged my husband to help me get justice for my mother. But Xiao Heng, who had always treated me tenderly, ordered the matrons to beat the child from my womb right before my mother's coffin. “If you’d agreed to let Lian'er marry into the family, she and her child wouldn’t have died!” “Wen Qingyan, you brought all of this on yourself!” Only then did I learn that Xiao Heng had been secretly involved with Wen Lian'er all along. Before my mother's coffin, my unborn child and I died together. When I opened my eyes again, firecrackers boomed outside the door, and I was dressed in a blood-red wedding gown. Before me knelt Wen Lian'er, pleading with me in front of everyone.