Both Reborn: The Mistress Takes Charge

She died beneath the white mourning banners of the Marquis of Wuwei’s estate. Her husband had fallen in battle, her young son had died, her dowry had been devoured bit by bit, and when she drew her last breath, there wasn’t a soul by her side.

But she saw her elder half-sister, Shen Lingyi.

The sister who had stolen her betrothal and married into the Marquis of Dingbei’s household to enjoy a life of luxury had died, too. She died with her eyes open, just like Shen Lingrong.

Only at the end did the two women, who had hated each other all their lives, learn the truth: the same person had plotted against them both.

When she opened her eyes again, Shen Lingrong had returned to a month before the marriage negotiations.

In her previous life, her stepmother had pushed her into a living hell to shield her sister from disaster. This time, she trusted no one but herself.

She turned informants, exposed poisonings, took charge of the household, and built a covert network. Step by step, she went from the most overlooked daughter-in-law in the marquis’s household to a force in the imperial court.

But the path was harder than she had imagined:

Her husband’s background was a mystery, the empress pressed her at every turn, the new emperor suspected his meritorious officials, and was her elder half-sister, who had also been reborn, an enemy or an ally?

From the inner chambers to the imperial court, from a pawn to the one moving the pieces.

In this life, she would be no one’s stand-in.