[Male lead and ex-husband are fake brothers + reincarnation + strange tales + raising children + three generations' character growth]
Jiang Luo is disliked by the Duke of Dingguo's household, then, by imperial decree, marries into the Marquis of Kaiping's household across the street. The two families are on bad terms.
Afterward, the Duke of Dingguo's legitimate son watches his former wife going everywhere with his neighbor, his elder brother and fellow student. Enraged and humiliated, he grows thinner by the day.
Meanwhile, after the Marquis of Kaiping's household wins Jiang Luo over,
the long-scheming heir to the marquisate says, “My dear, our children are all so promising. Can we have another?”
Jiang Luo replies, “Don't be silly. The children still have to study.”
The eldest is a prodigy who has the makings of a top scholar even at a young age. With his extraordinary talent, he'll surely become a great minister who can govern the realm!
The second has an exceptional gift for martial arts and a natural leader's bearing. He'll become a legendary military genius!
The third is peerless at chess, able to win even when fate is against her. She'll become a strategist the likes of whom the world has never seen.
Jiang Luo never cared much for studying, but as she accompanies her children in their lessons, their learning rubs off on her and she develops the makings of an emperor.
Across the street, the Duke of Dingguo's household has married the top female scholar from the Imperial Academy and competes with the marquis's household in everything, leaving them utterly exhausted, body and mind.
Trying to outdo each other through the children?
Word is, the Duke of Dingguo's household keeps them studying day and night, hanging their hair from the rafters and pricking their thighs with awls!
Later, when the new emperor grows wary of the marquis's household, they are forced into rebellion and seize the capital.
“My husband, why don't you become emperor?”
He cautiously glances at his father-in-law. “Why don't you take the throne, my dear?”
After she is enthroned, she discovers that he has committed the crime of deceiving the emperor. Her younger brother-in-law and her husband have been the same person all along.
The one the children have called their second uncle for all these years.
And their father can control the fates of emperors across the ages, and of this entire land.
