Caught in an Affair from the Start: The Wicked Wife Turns Over a New Leaf and Wins Her Cold, Stern Husband

[Marriage Before Love + A Wicked Woman Redeemed + Farming and Business + Success in the Imperial Exams + Everyday Family Life]

After transmigrating, Jiang Ning finds herself in the most humiliating situation imaginable: her original self has been caught in an affair, and the whole village is abuzz with rumors.

After witnessing the scandal, her husband, Fang Linchuan, leaves in silence, secretly deciding to give her one last chance. If she keeps behaving as badly as before, he will divorce her at once.

Having spent her previous life alone, she cannot bear to part with her three-year-old children or her husband. She resolves to shed her reputation as a wicked woman and make a proper life for herself. Her greedy family tries to sell the children when they fail to get money from her; a blacksmith she once had an affair with comes to extort her; and the neighbors criticize her at every turn. Obstacles lie all along the road ahead.

She refuses to waste time arguing. She takes care of the household and its daily chores, treats her husband’s chronic illness, and uses her special skills to start a small business and build up savings. She ruthlessly devises a way to break free from her parasitic family, then saves the county magistrate’s daughter-in-law with her medical skills and gains connections to help her husband prepare for the imperial examinations.

Life gradually improves, the villagers begin to change their minds, and even Fang Linchuan, whose heart has long been cold, starts to soften. One sweltering day on the road, he sees her barely able to stay on her feet and bends down to carry her on his back of his own accord. His steps remain steady all the way, and every trace of disappointment gives way to tenderness.

He makes a solemn promise: “A Ning, I’ll earn distinction and protect you. From now on, no one in this world will dare slight you in the least.”