[No-Brains Needed, Feel-Good Romance + Adoptive Older Brother + Reborn + Heroine Awakens]
Chu Yaoyao, the legitimate daughter of a merchant family, was wrongly married into a decaying marquis’s household. In her previous life, her husband plotted with her mother-in-law to drain her of her entire dowry. She endured endless torment and died a miserable death in a desolate courtyard.
Reborn on the night of her wedding, she saw through the greed and cold-heartedness of the marquis’s entire family. Refusing to be pushed around any longer, she slept with Li Junci, secretly moved all her wealth and dowry ahead of time, and escaped after exacting her revenge.
To guard against the marquis’s household striking back, she used her beauty to win people over and struck a deal with Li Junci, her adoptive son and tutor to the crown prince, a man of cool temperament and unparalleled cunning.
As the women of the household made things difficult for her, rumors were spread to frame her, and pressure mounted for her husband to take a second legal wife, Chu Yaoyao met every challenge head-on. She gathered concrete evidence of the marquis’s household’s corruption and extravagance to present at court, while waiting for the wives and concubines in the inner quarters to turn against one another and bring the household down themselves.
She had only wanted to join forces with a worthy partner and secure a peaceful divorce. But after he secretly protected her through one crisis after another, and they grew to appreciate each other during their long time together, the aloof tutor’s heart began to stir.
By the time Li Yanzhou finally came to his senses and desperately tried to win her back, a husband with immense power was already standing at Chu Yaoyao’s side.
Gasping, she laughed: “Stop groveling, big brother. My husband is back.”
