Shen Qingya opened her eyes and found herself an orphan from a general's household, sold by her stepmother to the Xie family for fifty taels to bring good fortune to a sick man.
Her husband, Xie Xingzhou, was frail, confined to a wheelchair, and not expected to live past twenty-five.
Her mother-in-law served her spoiled porridge, her sister-in-law slapped her, and the second branch hung funeral paper money in the middle of the night, cursing her to die.
Shen Qingya rolled her wrists. In her previous life, she had been a champion in underground boxing, and she knew how to deal with anyone who refused to behave.
She knocked her sister-in-law flying, tore into her mother-in-law, and killed the men the second branch sent after her in the middle of the night.
Then she opened her dowry chest: nine locks, an iron mine deed, and her late father's letter. The Xie family was more complicated than she'd imagined.
Her sickly husband looked at her calmly. "My dear, I need a blade."
She thought he was a pawn, but he had spent three years laying a trap and waiting for her to step into it.
The deadly Frost Poison. A life-for-a-life bargain. Her maternal uncle, the regent. The enemy who massacred the general's household.
Shen Qingya clutched the broken tile tightly. "Fine. I'll be that blade."
Xie Xingzhou wheeled himself to her side. "My dear, you wield the blade. I'll play the game with you."
In the book "The Strong Wife Rules: My Sick Husband Always Wants to Rebellion", the heroine is a strong and decisive woman who is neither weak nor internally dissatisfied, and dares to support herself and her family. The seemingly frail man has a deep mind, and the two go from testing each other to trusting each other, and the tension is very strong. There is no mindless abuse of the heroine, the conflict rhythm is tight, and new conflicts break out in every chapter. The atmosphere of the period is in place, the characters are three-dimensional, and there are more foreshadowings as it goes on. I want to see the two of them join forces to break the situation and fight against the difficulties around them. I look forward to the continued high-energy plot in the follow-up.
Good looking, compact plot