Villains Must Live to a Hundred

No recommendations from XHS, please. Gu Zhizhuo thinks her previous life was cursed with misfortune, especially the year she came of age. Everything went wrong. To be specific: 1. She was born into a prestigious family and raised in wealth. The year she came of age, her family was executed and stripped of its title, every last one of them wiped out. 2. She was betrothed to the Crown Prince as a child and destined to become Empress. The year she came of age, her fiancé fell for someone else. To win over the woman he loved, he disfigured Gu Zhizhuo and ruined her reputation. 3. She was talented and skilled with a bow and horse. The year she came of age, everyone in the capital called her a fool, a wastrel, and an ignorant idler. Meanwhile, her orphaned cousin Ji Nanke, who had been living with her family, enjoyed a life that only got better and better. All she had to do was lie around, and status, wealth, reputation, even the honor of becoming Crown Princess, all came to her on their own. She was known throughout the Great Qi Dynasty as a woman blessed with good fortune. Only after she died did Gu Zhizhuo learn that Ji Nanke had stolen all her good fortune. No wonder their lives had been turned upside down the year Gu Zhizhuo came of age. Good news: She’s reborn. Bad news: The moment she opens her eyes, her fiancé is instructing the imperial physician to drug her and disfigure her. What they don’t know is that in her previous life, despite being plagued by terrible misfortune, she studied medicine, divination, astrology, and physiognomy so diligently that she nearly became the Imperial Preceptor. * In her previous life, Gu Zhizhuo barely survived after being exiled. She finally had a chance to catch her breath when she met Xie Yingchen, who was just as close to death as she was. Xie Yingchen was the late emperor’s eldest legitimate grandson and once heir apparent. He taught her, raised her, and made sure her future path was smooth. Then he died, bearing a lifetime of hatred and a body racked with illness. Now, everything has been reset, and Xie Yingchen isn’t yet at death’s door. Gu Zhizhuo has to find him and cure him. Coming next: 《Reborn on the Day My Husband Took Two Wives》 Chu Yanxin is the only daughter of the richest merchant family in Jiangnan. The year she came of age, the Jingwu Marquisate came to ask for her hand in marriage, and her parents gave her half their fortune as a dowry. People said that for a mere merchant’s daughter to marry into a marquisate was a blessing her ancestors had earned over several lifetimes. Chu Yanxin thought so too in her previous life. But it wasn’t until her wedding day that she learned her husband would be marrying into two branches of the family, with two bridal sedan chairs arriving at the same time. And she was marrying into the main branch. The heir to the main branch of the Jingwu Marquisate had died in battle, leaving no children. The emperor had permitted his younger brother to marry into both branches and provide an heir for his elder brother. And she was the unfortunate woman married to the dead heir. In her previous life, she cried and made a scene, then fought desperately for a divorce. But as a mere merchant’s daughter, she was worth nothing in the eyes of the marquisate. Eventually, she resigned herself to her fate. Her mother-in-law adopted her husband’s younger son as his heir, and Chu Yanxin raised the child and managed the main branch. Even though she never saw her nominal husband again after their wedding ceremony, she was still the wedge between him and his true wife, the spark that set off their arguments. In the end, she died young, before she’d even turned twenty. The dowry she brought, a fortune beyond measure, restored the marquisate, which had already been on the verge of bankruptcy, to its former glory. All she got in return was: “The Chu woman was unlucky.” When she opened her eyes again, Chu Yanxin was back in her bridal sedan chair on her wedding day. If accepting her fate meant she would die, then the people who deserved to die could die instead. Lu Jin is the second legitimate son of the Jingwu Marquisate. In his previous life, his elder brother died in battle, and Lu Jin married into both branches of the family. He married the Chu woman and broke his promise to spend his life with Jiang Yuanyao alone. Fortunately, Chu died young, and under his management the marquisate prospered, eventually becoming a princely estate. Unfortunately, rumors persisted that his success was due to the riches Chu had brought with her. Later, he died in a rebellion. When he opened his eyes, he was reborn. He’d returned to the day he married both wives into the family at once. *The male lead is not Lu Jin. The ex-husband can go scatter his ashes. Theme: Your fate is in your own hands.