Overpraising Someone to Their Downfall Is Still Killing Them

My mother died when I was three, and my father remarried. My stepmother doted on me and gave me everything I asked for. By the time I was nine, I was infamous throughout the capital, and everyone knew my name.

My aunt thought something was wrong and told my father that my stepmother was ruining me with excessive indulgence. "Ke Yulan is malicious. You can't let her keep raising Aman, or Aman will become useless."

My father wouldn't listen.

At sixteen, my reputation was in tatters, and my fiance, the Bai family, came to break off the engagement. To preserve the relationship between our families, my father had my stepsister take my place and fulfill the marriage agreement.

On the wedding day, I was locked in a room and forced to drink poison. My stepsister, dressed in her phoenix crown and wedding robes, stopped outside my door.

At this point...