[No System] [Middle-Aged Rebirth] [Career-Driven Female Lead] [Business-Building Progression] [Divorce Before Love] [Ex-Husband Chases Her in Vain]
When it comes to taking down a mistress, nobody does it better than Xue Zhenzhu.
Back then, she chased Ling Ling all the way to the company and tore into her for her daughter’s sake, making a name for herself in one fell swoop. Who could have guessed that after dying and opening her eyes again, she would become the despised, impoverished wife of the prime minister, with a refined and respectable "confidante" standing by her husband's side?
Everyone was waiting for her to put on another show, tearing into a mistress.
Instead, Xue Zhenzhu stopped eating plain congee, put on red, reclaimed her dowry, and dug up twenty-eight years of rotten accounts at the prime minister's residence.
"If a man can't get his own act together, what's the point of dealing with women? This time, I'll settle the people and the accounts together."
With a single hairpin, she raised thirty thousand taels in relief funds. She turned the hollow shell of the Hundred Blessings Society into the Jade Society, with branches across the land.
When her daughter faced a marriage contract that would devour her, she stood by her and personally called off the engagement. When her husband asked her to give way for the sake of the political situation, she split the household, divided the accounts, and handed him a divorce agreement.
From false accounts in the inner residence to empty granaries for canal grain, from supply shortages on the border to a prince's palace coup, the once-despised wife of humble origins rallied a group of women and built another court.
Wang Bingjun, now her ex-husband, could only return her dowry, publicly admit his mistakes, and ask to marry her again.
Xue Zhenzhu opened the marriage contract.
"An ex-husband isn't a superior, and remarrying isn't returning to a job."
"Want to come back? Get in line and follow my rules."
