The First Secretary's Wife: A Darkening Diary

The Jiang family is the richest in Suzhou, living in a grand mansion filled with treasures and fine things. Jiang Hua has four younger sisters, and she is the eldest legitimate daughter of the family. Her father falls gravely ill, and her relatives covet the family fortune, bringing in an adopted son. The Jiang family falls apart, its wealth divided up and taken away. Jiang Hua is disfigured, framed, and forced into another marriage, living a life of misery. Reborn from the flames, Jiang Hua returns, making plans at every turn and repaying blood with blood. With no son in the Jiang family, her aunt seeks out the clan to press them into agreeing to adopt an heir. With the matter imminent, Jiang Hua finds herself a husband who will marry into her family and protect its fortune. It is only when she learns that her new husband, Yan Yu, is actually Yan Wuyi, the man who will command the court's attention ten years later, that she realizes... Jiang Hua: ... My historical romance, The General's Wife's Second Life, is now underway. Please add it to your library! Blurb: Ning Qingzhi is reborn. She was the legitimate daughter of the Yongchuan Earl's household. Her birth mother died of illness, and her father remarried. Her stepmother truly loved her, and the following year gave them a beautiful, brilliant little sister. But as the girl grew older, her health grew weaker, and she needed a little of Ning Qingzhi's blood to survive. Persuaded by her family and her betrothed, Ning Qingzhi naturally agreed. But once she lay down on the sickbed, she never woke again. Only after she died did she learn that it had all been a lie. They had only wanted to trade her life for her sister's. Her hatred was boundless, yet one day she entered the cycle of reincarnation and lived out her days in another world. When she opened her eyes again, she had been reborn in her first life, just as her stepmother and betrothed were urging her to give her blood to her sister. * Later, looking for a place to settle down in her old age, Ning Qingzhi thinks of the Huainan Prince, the great general who had been unconscious for years in her previous life, then awakened and insisted on dying at her grave. So, to the terror of everyone in the earl's household, she marries this unconscious widower of a war hero, who has a three-year-old hot-tempered child. Everyone thinks that the legitimate daughter of the Yongchuan Earl's household, whose beauty grows more striking by the day, can only live meekly, dependent on her family before marriage and on her husband's family afterward. The hot-tempered stepson, the money-loving mother-in-law, the difficult sisters-in-law, her stepmother and stepsister, and her former betrothed all say,