Hua Fei Reborn: After Marrying Gu Tingye, I Went on a Killing Spree

[Consort Hua Reborn + Story of Minglan Spin-Off + Marriage First, Love Later + Household Intrigue and Case-Solving + Female Alliance + A Powerful Team]

In her previous life, Nian Shilan staked everything on an emperor’s favor and her brother’s power. What she received in the end was a cup of poison and the words, “You are hereby sentenced to death.”

When she opened her eyes again, she was the daughter of a disgraced military family, seated in the bridal sedan on her way to marry Gu Tingye. But before the red veil could be lifted, someone had replaced her wedding medicine with poison, and the Gu family wanted the daughter of a disgraced official to enter through the side gate.

Nian Shilan pulled out her golden hairpin, pierced her palm, and gave a cold laugh.

“This palace has died once already. You don’t get to tell me how to live.”

To uncover the injustice surrounding the Nian family army’s grain supplies, she starts by reclaiming her dowry and control of the household. She exposes false accounts, catches traitors, and saves military families. Together with Sheng Minglan and Zhang Guifen, she tears down the web of interests the marquis’s household has built over the years. Meanwhile, she and Gu Tingye go from a married couple with their own agendas to allies who can trust each other with their backs.

But when half a ledger of military grain accounts resurfaces, she discovers that Gu Tingye had been secretly ordered to investigate the Nian family even before their marriage. And her beloved elder brother, Nian Gengyao, whom she has fought so hard to save, is not entirely innocent either.

If the complete ledger is handed over, it can win justice for tens of thousands of border troops, but it will also prove that Nian Gengyao illegally diverted grain and secretly raised an army.

Everyone urges her to think of her marriage, her family, and the entire Nian clan.

But Nian Shilan lays the ledger on the imperial desk.

“Hand it over, and you’ll have no family left to rely on,” Gu Tingye says.

“Who says I need to rely on anyone else?”

She lifts her eyes, still the same proud and ruthless Consort Hua.

“In this life, I make my own choices.”