Wei Xuezhi has been a widow for sixteen years, managing the household, caring for her mother-in-law, and raising her stepson. She believes she has done nothing wrong.
But then she learns that her late husband faked his death and ran away, that her mother-in-law knew and deliberately hid the truth while mistreating her at every turn, and that the stepson she raised is actually her late husband's biological child.
When the truth comes out, she can take no more.
She burns her husband alive, poisons her mother-in-law, frames her stepson and sends him to prison, and finally becomes the head of her husband's family.
Unexpectedly, one day she opens her eyes and finds herself back on the day her scumbag father forced her to switch marriage partners.
Given a second chance at life, she is determined not to repeat her past mistakes.
Her scumbag father makes her kneel in the ancestral hall? She sets fire to the entire ancestral line, all eighteen generations!
Her scumbag father wants to beat her to death in a fit of anger? She turns around and reports his corruption to the Imperial Guards, earning him a grand family-confiscation package!
She wants nothing more than to fight her scumbag father, torment her stepmother, and break off her engagement to a scumbag, so she can live freely. Instead, she accidentally catches the eye of a powerful Imperial Guard commander.
From then on, the cool and reserved minister blocks her doorway every night, eyes reddened as he begs softly: "I'll get you power, status, wealth, and noble rank. Look at me, and don't look at anyone else."
