Xie Zhijuan died in that gloomy, freezing courtyard.
Her legs were rotting, and blood streamed from her eyes as she listened to the Duke's manor in the main courtyard celebrate a baby's full month. She died with hatred in her heart.
If only life could begin again...
When she opened her eyes, she had returned to the moment she first met the scoundrel!
In this life, she tore away her white-lotus cousin's disguise and exposed the scoundrel's crime of embezzling military honors. And the Grand Secretary of the Court of Judicial Review, Lu Yanci, doted on her beyond measure, promising her a lifetime of peace.
She thought her suffering had finally ended, but at the happiest moment, she suddenly woke with a start.
Lu Yanci didn't exist. Her revenge had never begun. She was still the broken body lying in that dilapidated courtyard.
This long dream of spring and autumn was nothing more than the final funeral she had prepared for herself before dying.
(This is a BE story with a bittersweet aesthetic and an imagined wish-fulfillment plot. There is no redemption in reality, so read with caution!)
If it is really what the introduction says, then it can only be this score.