I'm Not Dead Yet, and My Husband Has Decided to Take a Second Wife

1. Clever people don't need to be reborn. Su Yuehua is only half clever.

She is the legitimate daughter of the Marquis of Wu'an's household, well-read, refined, gentle, and compliant. When Xu Zhiqian, the top scorer of the imperial examinations, and his mother practically wore out her doorstep begging for her hand, she thought she'd found a good match.

Until Xu Zhiqian had a dream.

His mother-in-law made things difficult for him, his wife treated him coldly, and Xu Zhiqian even became infatuated with a woman from the brothel district.

Later, as the Marquis of Wu'an's household fell into decline, Su Yuehua held him back for half his life before he finally rose to the position of Grand Secretary.

Xu and his mother couldn't wait to climb higher by marrying into a more powerful family, and plotted to kill the mother and keep the child.

So she had only ever been a stepping stone in the Xu family's dream of rising to the highest office.

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Red silk hung everywhere on the day the new bride entered the household.

Su Yuehua, now reduced to a