Yu Daihua is the only daughter of the Yu family. Naturally beautiful and gentle, she has a kind, virtuous disposition.
A fortune-teller said she was destined for a short life and would need to be raised away from home to survive. So from an early age, her father sent her to live with her maternal grandmother.
Her cousin Cui Zeyao was her betrothed from birth. They grew up together, and she gave him her heart, eagerly looking forward to marrying him when they were grown and spending their lives together.
But everything changed before she came of age, when her father passed away.
At first, her maternal grandmother's family delayed the wedding, saying she had to observe mourning for three years.
Then a woman came to the capital, and Yu Daihua discovered that her cousin had always had a beloved woman in his heart.
Then a plague swept through the land, and she was framed and infected.
The other woman's beauty was as vivid as a red flower, while Yu Daihua was like a discarded grain of rice, trampled and despised by everyone.
She tried to pull herself together, only to learn that her maternal grandmother's family had taken all the property her father left behind.
She thought, so be it. She would be his wife someday, after all.
She waited and waited, for three years and then another three, only to hear that her cousin was marrying the woman he loved.
It finally dawned on her: those people she'd thought were close to her had only ever pretended to care.
In the end, she died coughing up blood, consumed by sorrow.
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Reborn, she cuts her losses in time, swiftly serves her cousin's family some face-slapping, then turns around and falls into the arms of the playboy Fu Chunsheng. She figures she'll just lie flat this time and live out a peaceful life.
But one night, her playboy husband, who only knows how to eat and drink and can't even hurt a fly, takes a knife and hacks off someone's hands.
He wipes the blood dripping from the blade with a white handkerchief, a wicked smile on his face. "Wife, are you scared?"
She smiles on the outside, but inside she's miserable. How could she not be scared!
Good grief, did I come back to life for nothing again...
[Reading Guide]
1. The heroine serves face-slapping at lightning speed, without stalling or second-guessing herself.
2. The male lead is Fu Chunsheng. The second male lead, Cui Zeyao, gets a groveling-after-the-breakup arc and is just a disposable side character.
3. A sweet, satisfying story.
Blurb saved in 2023.
Theme: As long as you keep living, there are countless possibilities!
