A Composed Consort

[New project: The Chief Minister's Butcher Wife. Please add it to your favorites!] The Empress is virtuous and widely praised. The Noble Consort is stunningly beautiful and beloved above all others in the imperial harem. The newly arrived beauties are all gorgeous, scrambling to climb the ranks. As the third-ranked of the Four Consorts, with a prince of her own, Consort De thinks that competing for favor is nothing but a passing cloud. All she needs to do is eat her fill and wait to die. Of course, if anyone dares disturb her happy life of eating her fill and waiting to die, she's not someone who can be pushed around. New project: The Chief Minister's Butcher Wife. Please add it to your favorites! Blurb: [Ding! Sign-in successful at the Hongye Town Bank. Obtained 250 copper coins.] [Ding! Sign-in successful at the Hongye Town Apothecary. Obtained a packet of spices: 1 jin each of star anise, cassia bark, bay leaves, and chili peppers.] Jiang Chun pushed a wheelbarrow loaded with two sides of pork through town, signing in at several locations along the way. Honestly, it was ridiculous. She was a nobody author who had finally shot to fame after writing a beautiful, strong, and tragic male supporting character. But before she could even collect her royalties, she died. The good news was that after dying, she transmigrated into the novel she'd written, and knew every plot point by heart. The bad news was that she'd become the deceased wife of Song Shi'an, that beautiful, strong, and tragic male supporting character. She was supposed to die after cheating on him, drowned in a pig cage. Jiang Chun: "..." This is bad! But she thought she could still save herself. * When Song Shi'an woke from a nap, he discovered that he had been reborn into the past, back when he was still a live-in son-in-law in the Jiang family. Faced with Jiang Chun, the adulterous woman who had humiliated him in his previous life, he decided to strike first and deal with her before returning to the capital, so she wouldn't get the chance to cheat on him. Then, to his surprise, Jiang Chun not only stopped disliking him, but went out of her way to take care of him. She even slipped into his bed, hoping to consummate their marriage... At first, Song Shi'an thought she had also been reborn and had somehow learned that he would eventually rise to the highest ranks of the court. That was why she was clinging to him. Until he discovered her secret... Core idea: