After the Eldest Princess Is Reborn

In the sixth year of the Shendao era, in the palaces of the Northern Dynasty, Princess Zhaoming swallowed her last cup of poisoned wine and died before her husband, Lu Yun.

Four years later, in a dilapidated shrine to the local earth god in the Southern Dynasty, a little beggar who had been dead suddenly opened her eyes.

The princess who had once stood high above everyone had become a lowly little beggar. Her husband, Lu Yun, had been gentle and devoted, yet in the end had taken her life with a cup of poison. Now he had risen to the rank of chancellor by stepping over her corpse, holding absolute power and commanding the reverence of gods and ghosts alike.

On the night she returned to the world of the living, she stood in tattered clothes by the banks of the Shenjia River, its waves raging. She gazed toward Ling'an, the capital thousands upon thousands of miles away, invisible in the distance. Beneath a torrential downpour that seemed ready to break her, she swore, as calmly as could be, to the heavens and earth raging around her:

I will cross the river and slaughter your entire family.

And this was the most insignificant, unknown beginning of the magnificent story she would one day tell.

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1. Probably includes switching identities and being reborn, passionate revenge, political scheming at an idiotic level, an absurdly powerful and illogical protagonist's halo, and all kinds of other chaotic elements.

2. The male lead is not Lu Yun.

Theme: Strive to face a new life