Female lead: Wen Nianhe
• Identity: An illegitimate daughter of the Wen family. Her mother is an unfavored concubine, and she is timid and chronically ill.
• Previous life: Patient, reserved, gentle, and obedient. In the end, her stepmother, half-sister, and fiancé conspired against her, marrying her off in a ghost marriage to the foolish young master of the Xue family, a family with a different surname, and burying her alive as a sacrificial offering. She died consumed by hatred.
• Rebirth: She returns to age sixteen, one year before the tragedy begins.
• Personality: Calm and ruthless, meticulous, no pushover, and always pays back every wrong.
• Goals: Protect her mother, tear her enemies apart, take control of her fate, and escape the Wen household.
In the sixth year of the Republic, warlords are just beginning to rise. Old and new ideas collide, aristocratic family feuds are brutal, and the code of propriety devours lives.
