My Sister Died on My Wedding Night

On her wedding night, her older sister hanged herself from a beam in the bridal chamber of the Gu family home, still dressed in her wedding gown.

Everyone said she had taken her own life. Lin Zhaoning refused to believe it.

She took her sister’s place and married into the most prestigious mansion in Lin’an City. She dug a bloodstained silver hairpin out of a crack in the bricks, hauled a maid’s body from a dry well, and uncovered money-laundering deeds and secret ledgers in the study.

She relied neither on a man nor on luck.

When the killer was sentenced to death with execution suspended, she stood before her sister’s memorial tablet and whispered:

“Sister, I haven’t let a single person who hurt you go unpunished.”