I Died, but the King of Hell Says My Resurrection Failed

Shen Songyi met an unjust end.

A bowl of "calming soup" personally served by her husband made her bleed from all seven orifices and die on the night of her eighteenth birthday.

While waiting in line in the underworld, she saw the girl who had borrowed her lifespan to return to life smile sweetly at the Book of Life and Death in the Hall of the King of Hell. "Thank you for your life. I'll make good use of it."

When she opened her eyes again...

Shen Songyi had become the most notorious eldest daughter of the Shen family in the Great Liang Dynasty, trapped in a body that had been poisoned into idiocy for three years.

And her husband, Jiang Geli, the chief minister of the court, was tenderly holding the hand of her "younger sister" as he announced to the guests, "Songyi is gravely ill and beyond treatment. Today, I am taking a second wife to continue the family line."

Clutching the "Life-Borrowing Contract" she had brought back from the underworld, she slowly unfolded it inside her sleeve.

A line of bloody small print appeared at the end of the contract:

"The borrower must fulfill three final wishes on behalf of the creditor, or their soul will be scattered."

First wish: Ruin the faithless man's reputation.

Second wish: Find the remains of the unjustly killed infant.

Third wish: ...Marry the King of Hell.

Shen Songyi looked at the refined and elegant Jiang Geli at the banquet, then remembered the handsome King of Hell, lazily propping up his head as he said, "There was an error in the return-to-life process."

She suddenly smiled.

She would avenge herself in the mortal realm, and collect her debt in the underworld, too.

Jiang Geli had been troubled lately.

His legitimate wife, who had been poisoned into idiocy for three years, had suddenly regained her wits.

And not only that, she had become... very strange.

First, she tore her second wife's wedding dress to shreds in public, then smiled and asked him, "Husband, did I taste good when I died?"

Then she presented evidence of his treason before the Emperor, her expression gentle. "I simply couldn't bear to see you keep making one mistake after another."