In her previous life, Bai Xihe was married off like a piece of merchandise by her stepmother.
Before the wedding, her stepmother repeatedly advised her: "Although your husband has no official title and his first wife left behind a son and a daughter, his older brother is the top scholar in the imperial examinations, and his sister-in-law is a princess. As long as you please your husband, there's no need to worry that his family won't help ours."
"Your birth mother died young, and your only family to rely on is your younger brother. As long as you marry into a powerful family, you needn't worry about your brother having no prospects."
Her husband's family was no powerful family. It was a den of wolves and tigers.
Her husband feared she would mistreat his children and never entered her room.
Her mother-in-law mocked her every day for failing to keep her husband and being a barren hen, saying she was less useful than a concubine.
With nowhere else to turn, she learned from the maids and climbed into her husband's bed, only to be called shameless to her face.
When she finally became pregnant, her circumstances did not improve. Instead, she became a thorn in her stepchildren's sides.
Before she was three months pregnant, her stepchildren pushed her down, causing her to miscarry.
After that, she suffered repeated miscarriages and never had a child of her own.
Every time she miscarried, the whole family mocked her, saying her period was merely late and there was no way she had been pregnant and lost the baby.
She dragged her sick body through the endless work of serving the entire household, hoping to earn a good reputation so the top scholar and princess would help her birth family.
Those lofty top scholar and princess had never once given her the time of day, let alone helped her family.
She suffered in her husband's home and could not return to her birth family. Before she had even turned thirty, illness ravaged her, and she froze to death in the bitter winter.
Reborn, she no longer believes that treating others kindly will make them treat her kindly in return.
If they're going to hell, they might as well all go together.
A den of wolves and tigers? A quick swing of the blade will take care of that.
Who should she kill first?
Coming from the previous book, the author has a great book
This is the second time I have read the author's book, and it is as good as ever.