Being a Second Wife Is No Easy Task

[Thanks for supporting the official release] Shen Lanxi was an overworked office drone who died suddenly from the rat race. After transmigrating, she became a concubine-born daughter of the modest Shen family in the capital, with food and clothes aplenty. Just as she was happily settling into a quiet retirement with the Shen family, she was suddenly told she would be sent off as a second wife to raise her stepson, and as a substitute bride, no less! What? How could this happen? Wait, she gets ten thousand taels and a generous dowry? They're even giving her those luminous pearls and ruby jewelry sets? Oh. In that case, no problem. After the wedding Household intrigue? Fighting for favor? “Old Madam is eager for a great-grandson, so we’ll bring him to her to raise herself. You can have the estate outside the city.” Shen Lanxi: “All right.” “My lord is busy with official duties and only visits the inner quarters once every half month. Please don’t disturb him. These two chests of silver are for you, Madam, from my lord.” Shen Lanxi: “All right.” “You’re still young, so set aside household management for now. Here’s the deed to a three-courtyard residence.” Shen Lanxi: “All right.” Ah! Being a second wife is hard! How can she possibly resist these sugar-coated cannonballs wearing away at her resolve to be a ‘virtuous wife’? But at some point, this wonderful life began to change “Here is my homework for today, Mother. Please check it.” “Mother, my clothes are torn. Could you mend them for me?” “Mother, all my classmates at the academy have eaten food cooked by their mothers. I hear it tastes wonderful.” “Mother, ” Shen Lanxi: “Stop! Be good. You’re a big boy now. Do things for yourself.” “My lady, it’s time to retire for the night.” “My lady, all my colleagues have sachets embroidered by their wives.” “My lady, it’s pouring today, and your husband is in poor health. Don’t forget to come pick me up after work.” “My lady, Cheng-ge’er needs a little brother. Shall we put in some effort?” Shen Lanxi: “Get lost!” We’re both getting on in years. What effort are you talking about! Coming soon "Wine Rich, Spring Deep (Rebirth)" A vengeful woman VS a world-weary man. Several years have passed since the chaos of war, and the great clans are helping to stabilize the regime. Cui Xiangyi, a daughter of the Qinghe Cui clan, was fifteen when Zhou Juxu took her as his empress. Rumor had it that this emperor, welcomed by the aristocratic clans, had once bent down himself to wipe mud from his young empress's boots while out on a spring excursion. So greatly was she favored that all the young women of the Southern Dynasties envied Cui Xiangyi for her good fortune. But in the seventh year of Datong, the entire Cui clan was convicted of crimes and put to the sword. In early spring of the eighth year of Datong, an imperial decree ordering Cui Xiangyi to take her own life arrived alongside Zhou Juxu’s newly widowed cousin, the woman dearest to his heart, whom he had just made a Noble Concubine. Cui Xiangyi leaned against a couch, her long hair loosely bound with a strip of white silk. With delicate hands, she picked up the cup of poisoned wine and idly swirled its clear contents. She raised her eyes to the beautiful woman in her ornate robes and said, “Zhou Juxu is so stingy that he won’t even give you the empress’s throne.” Watching the woman's face change in an instant, Cui Xiangyi curled her lips into a smile, tilted her head back, and drank the poisoned wine. -- Reborn, Cui Xiangyi returned to the fourth year of Datong, before her marriage, when she was still a young lady in her family home. The wedding crown gleamed on the low table. Gazing into the bronze mirror, she smiled and adjusted it on her head, then entered Fengyang Hall to meet the groom in his wedding robes. Rich wine, deep spring. Are you drunk? Theme: Be a good person, work hard, and live happily