[That night in Shen Tang, I was reborn and returned to the third year when I married into the Hou Mansion]
In my last life, I used a dowry of 300,000 yuan to make up for the shortfall of the Yongning Hou Mansion and help my husband rise to prominence, but what I got in return was the death of my parents and children, the bankruptcy of my natal family, and my being falsely accused of adultery.
The day after I was reborn and my dowry was emptied, I stroked the sleeping face of my two-year-old son and burned the script of a good wife and loving mother.
In this life, I want to be Yama.
The account book is my knife.
I recorded with hidden ink in the blank spaces of the Buddhist scriptures: misappropriation of dowry, private mortgage, supporting foreign wives, embezzlement of public money... Ten major sins, and the crimes are irrefutable.
Business is my game.
They laugh that women cannot do business, but I want to take charge of the royal weaving, rectify the backlog of the inner government, and barter for eight thousand war horses. When His Majesty personally bestowed the plaque of "Guo Shang" on him, the Marquis Mansion was being overrun by creditors.
Until the court, I spread out the account book in front of the court and revealed the ten crimes.
My husband was paralyzed on the ground, my mother-in-law's face was ashen, and the outsider who once caused me to sink into the pond screamed: "How dare you——"
I held my son in my arms and looked directly at the judge: "I don't ask for anything else. I just want to be righteous, return to the clan, and establish a female household on my own."
Later, there were more girls' schools in the capital, affordable medicine halls in the south of the Yangtze River, and soldiers on the frontier praised the "Goddess of Wealth" for her gift of clothes.
The eldest princess smiled and asked at the Lantern Festival: "Do you still hate me?"
I looked at the lights of thousands of houses, shook my head and chuckled:
"The hatred has been let go, and the road is at your feet."
——But those who owe me, I want them to repay a hundred times.
