Both reborn, they save each other!
Shen Tangning, the marquis's wife, is reborn on her wedding night. This time, she tears up the script of the virtuous wife, kicks the deadbeat to the curb, turns around and clings to her former brother-in-law, and sends every last one of this family's awful people to their doom.
In her previous life, Shen Tangning was the most virtuous marquis's wife in the outskirts of the capital.
Her husband, Song Jingyu, loved someone else, so she dutifully cared for his parents and kept their declining household afloat. She put up with her shrewish, spiteful stepmother; cleaned up after her endlessly troublesome sister-in-law; and even truly pitied her husband's frail, frequently ill half-brother, Song Jingyuan.
But what did she get for it?
The day the marquis's household was restored to its former glory, his beloved returned. In front of all the guests, her husband demanded that she give up her place as his lawful wife. “A Ning, you're virtuous and capable. You can survive without the marquis's household, but she'll die without me.”
Her dear stepmother and sister-in-law laughed as they counted her dowry, scolding her for taking up space without doing anything useful.
When she was forced to drink the cup of poison, the only one who rushed in like a madman was the half-brother she had once “pitied,” Song Jingyuan. A volley of arrows killed him in the snowstorm. Before he died, he said just one thing to her: “Sister-in-law... in your next life, don't be so good to him. Look at me...”
When Shen Tangning opened her eyes again, she was back on her wedding night.
Before her stood her husband's icy face. “Shen Tangning, marrying you was a matter of convenience. The only one in my heart is Yaoguang. You'd better know your place.”
Shen Tangning smiled.
She ripped off her red veil and tore up the marriage contract in front of Song Jingyu. “Fine. I'll marry your younger brother right now. By seniority, you'll have to call me Second Aunt.”
The whole household was in an uproar. Everyone thought she had gone mad.