[Reborn + switched marriage + revenge + household intrigue + satisfying read + devoted couple + doting husband]
The Bai family has two daughters: the elder, born to the first wife, is breathtakingly beautiful; the younger, born to a concubine, is as delicate as a willow in the breeze. At eight, the elder daughter is sent to a country estate and left to fend for herself. Then an imperial decree summons her back to the capital to marry a top scholar. She thinks fate has finally favored her, never realizing that this is the beginning of her nightmare. For the sake of her husband, the top scholar, and his rapid rise through the ranks, she provides resources, devises clever plans, and builds connections, sparing no effort. In just three years, she helps him rise from a sixth-rank Hanlin Academy compiler to Grand Tutor, a first-rank official admired by all. But the first thing the top scholar does after securing success is cut down the wife who stood by him from the beginning... Only then does she realize that the man she loved and longed for had never wanted to marry her at all. He had always wanted her stepsister. And her mother's early death, her brother's disappearance, her grandfather's coma, and... the child she carried, fully formed yet dead in her womb, were all part of a scheme.
When she opens her eyes again, she has returned to the year her marriage was decreed.
This time, she turns their own plan against them and marries the crippled prince everyone avoids.
She will make those demons come before her with their black hearts in their hands, to atone for the brutal death she suffered in her previous life!
One day,
he takes her hand. “Your hand is a little cold.”
She tries to pull away. “Your Highness, the act is over.”
He holds on tight. “Who told you I was acting?”
