I Took My Brother's Place as a Live-in Son-in-Law, Only to Learn the Empress Was My Mortal Enemy in a Past Life

My name is Lin Yuan. I’ve been reborn.

In my previous life, my family considered me a cripple and heartlessly cast me aside. In the end, when the apocalypse descended upon all the worlds, I died like an ant at the hands of the peerless Empress who had dominated the ages.

In this life, I’ve returned to the age of eighteen, and my family is once again pushing me into the abyss: I’m to marry into the family of the future Empress in place of my dazzlingly talented younger brother.

Everyone thinks this is a death sentence, a disgrace brought upon me by my family, and the final fate of a good-for-nothing like me.

They don’t know that I’m aware of every opportunity and disaster the next hundred years will bring.

And they have even less idea that I’ve awakened the one and only god-tier talent: [Heaven Rewards Diligence]!