I Became a Wicked Wife, Then Spoiled My Husband and Built a Home

When I woke up, I had become Hua Manjin, the most loathed woman in Sophora Village, hated by both people and dogs.

I was fat and ugly, with a scarred face, and the very embodiment of laziness, gluttony, and domineering behavior. Relying on a dowry of twenty taels of silver, I forced Yun Lan, the village’s most handsome and frail scholar, to marry me. After joining the family, I squandered all our savings, literally angered my mother-in-law to death, and beat and cursed my husband, saying things cruel enough to cut him to the heart.

But the person now inhabiting this body is Lin Wan, a modern martial arts instructor.

Faced with a start so rotten it was oozing pus, she stared at her hideous reflection in the mirror and smelled the sour, pungent stench clinging to her. She was so desperate she wanted to die all over again. But then she looked at the scholar husband the original owner had called “useless” and “not a real man.” His body was covered in bruises, and his eyes were as lifeless as ash. Guilt and anger surged together in her heart.

She couldn’t run away, and she couldn’t die. She had no choice but to grit her teeth and take on this enormous mess!

She vowed to turn over a new leaf on the original owner’s behalf and repay every debt of wrongdoing.

From that day on, the “vicious woman” in the eyes of Sophora Village’s residents began to change.

She plunged into the icy river and scrubbed away every trace of filth;

She gave up her lazy ways, rose at dawn and worked late into the night, using modern knowledge to find opportunities in the wilderness;

She gathered herbs in the mountains, hunted, researched recipes, and made clever little items, steadily turning a poor household into a thriving one;

She even... began awkwardly learning how to treat the thin, bookish man well.

She bought back the brushes, ink, paper, and inkstone he had pawned, then quietly left them beside his desk;

When he studied by lamplight, she brought him a bowl of hot, sweet eggs;

She shielded him from every bit of gossip, for him