In her previous life, Shen Zhaotan was switched into the Ningyuan Marquis household through a scheme by her stepmother and stepsister. This supposedly “perfect match” that everyone envied ultimately landed her in the imperial prison, stained her entire family’s name, and ended in her brutal death.
Reborn on the eve of the bride swap, she refuses to be a pawn for others to manipulate. When the betrothal documents are exchanged, she personally hands the splendid Marquis household over to her stepsister and marries into the traitorous minister’s family, a household everyone fears like the plague.
Xie Wujiao, heir to the Xie family, bears a disgraced name after the northern frontier military grain case. His old wounds have yet to heal, and he is confined to his residence, yet he continues investigating the case in secret. Armed with incomplete memories of her previous life, medical knowledge for examining injuries, and clues in the account books her birth mother left behind, Shen Zhaotan gradually establishes her rules in the Xie household and seizes control of its affairs. What began as “taking shelter from disaster with the Xie family” becomes “clearing the Xie family’s name.”
Domestic power struggles involve dowries, status, and ancestral rites; the political arena is filled with old cases, military grain, and a hidden succession battle. Whoever chooses a marriage takes on the debt that comes with it.
In this life, she never wanted a marriage that merely sounded good. She wants to settle the score, one by one, with everyone who harmed her and the Xie family.
The second chapter says that the heroine's sister married into the Xie Mansion in her previous life, and later the Xie Mansion overturned the verdict, so she lived a very prosperous life. In this life, the female protagonist entered the Xie Mansion and formed an alliance with the male protagonist. She also asked the male protagonist how long she could live as a prince and his wife without forming an alliance and having limited strength and limited help. The male protagonist's reply was to the effect that it depends on luck. Then they started making various plans as if they were walking on the tip of a knife, and the heroine kept spinning like a top. Does this mean that the heroine's sister is extremely lucky? In her previous life, she didn't have to do anything but be the wife of the crown prince. The Xie family relied on other people's efforts to reverse the case, but she still enjoyed great glory? 🤦I ran away