After Kicking Out Her Scumbag Husband, She Became the Favorite of the Six Palaces

In her previous life, Xu Qiong married Pei Lingxing, heir to the Duke of Zhenguo's household. Before they could spend their wedding night, northern barbarians invaded, and Pei Lingxing led troops on an expedition to the northwest. He was gone for five years.

During those five years, Xu Qiong served her mother-in-law and managed the household. Everyone praised her as virtuous and exemplary.

Xu Qiong lived alone, hoping only for her husband's victorious return.

Just as she had hoped, her husband returned. Even more delightfully, he had asked the emperor to grant her the title of a noblewoman.

Everything seemed so perfect, until a banquet was held in the palace. Xu Qiong attended with her husband, but someone plotted against her, and she nearly lost her honor.

Xu Qiong had no idea how she made it back home. Her heart was full of guilt and remorse, and she blamed herself for not being more careful. Otherwise, she would not have nearly lost her virtue.

But she didn't know that things had yet to reach their worst.

Less than a month after the incident at the palace banquet, her husband appeared before her with her stepsister, and two young children at their side.

Only then did Xu Qiong learn that her stepsister had long admired her husband and, five years ago, had secretly followed him alone to the northwest.

Everyone started laughing at Xu Qiong. Her sister-in-law urged her to be magnanimous, while her mother-in-law hinted that the northwest was a desolate place, and that her husband had needed someone by his side to care for him. Xu Qiong should be grateful, not resentful of her stepsister.

Her stepsister wept like a pear blossom in the rain, begging for Xu Qiong's forgiveness and saying she did not want to compete with her, and was willing to be a concubine for the rest of her life.

In the end, Xu Qiong tearfully agreed to let her stepsister into the household. But it was like inviting a wolf inside, and her stepsister poisoned her.

Before she died, her stepsister stood proudly before her and told her the truth about what had happened at the palace banquet years ago. Her husband had known all along. It had all been planned by her mother-in-law and husband, who had used the incident to make the emperor order Pei Lingxing to divorce her.

Learning the truth, Xu Qiong thought that no short life could have been more ironic.

Reborn, Xu Qiong was determined to kick her scumbag husband to the curb. Virtue and obedience, women's commandments and lessons: she would never compromise again.

She thought that after the divorce, she would probably spend her days with a lamp and prayer beads. But she never expected to become an imperial consort, and end up the emperor's most favored one.

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In her previous life, Gu Ying, the eldest daughter of the Huai'an Marquis's family, was kidnapped and taken to Jiangnan. She was adopted by Wan Niang, a courtesan. When the wealthy Master Xu bought Wan Niang's freedom, Auntie Wan looked at Gu Ying and said to Master Xu, “This girl is a beauty in the making. Why not keep her by your side and raise her? She'll surely be useful to you one day.”

Master Xu put Gu Ying under Auntie Wan's name and raised her as a concubine-born daughter of the Xu family.

More than ten years later, the Xu family's eldest branch moved to the capital, hoping to secure a vacancy as an imperial merchant. Master Xu came up with a plan to present Gu Ying to the capital's powerful and influential men.

But no one expected that just days after arriving in the capital, Gu Ying's true identity would be revealed, along with the fact that she had been betrothed since childhood to the heir of the Duke of Xinguo.

The Grand Princess dotes on her legitimate grandson so much. Surely she wouldn't really make her precious grandson marry Gu Ying, whose reputation is in tatters?

In her previous life, even Gu Ying herself never expected the Duke of Xinguo's household to accept the marriage.

But with her reputation in ruins and no support from her birth family, Gu Ying found that after marrying into the Duke's household, her mother-in-law, Madam Dou, found new ways to torment her every day, while her sisters-in-law mocked and taunted her. After finally enduring long enough to give birth to a son, she hadn't even had a chance to look at the baby in his swaddling clothes before her mother-in-law had the child taken to her own courtyard.

After years of lowering herself and placating everyone, Gu Ying met a tragic end.

Reborn just before her wedding to the heir of the Duke of Xinguo, Gu Ying was still feeling anxious and uneasy. Then her stepsister came to her, offering to ease her worries and saying she was willing to take her place and marry him.

Had her stepsister also been reborn?!

Theme: No matter the circumstances, never forget the courage you should have