In her previous life, Gu Shuning's wife led an army that destroyed her country, beheaded her father, and sent his head to her by express courier.
Gu Shuning was already in poor health, and the fury overwhelmed her so badly that she spat blood and died.
But when she closed her eyes and opened them again, she did not find herself in the underworld. Instead, she was at her wedding to Mu Suisheng.
Gu Shuning had been reborn, returning to the day she married Mu Suisheng five years earlier.
Looking at the woman who had destroyed her country, Gu Shuning quickly suppressed her overwhelming hatred. She knew that only by lying low could she avoid repeating the mistakes of her previous life.
Drawing on her knowledge of Mu Suisheng from her previous life, she played the role of a gentle wife.
For some reason, though, Mu Suisheng was even harder to get close to this time around. Gu Shuning tried everything, but nearly ended up with a divorce agreement.
Driven to desperation, Gu Shuning jumped into the freezing lake, hoping to win a chance to stay through a little self-sacrifice.
That very night, she developed a high fever and came close to death.
When she woke, Mu Suisheng's face was cold as ice.
But Gu Shuning was rather pleased. She was not afraid of Mu Suisheng getting angry. What frightened her most was Mu Suisheng not caring at all, because then she would have no chance of staying.
But as their eyes met, before Gu Shuning could even begin to bargain, Mu Suisheng's eyes gradually reddened.
"Gu Shuning, how could you bear to make me a widow again?"
Again...?
Gu Shuning was stunned.
But Mu Suisheng turned and left. In the days that followed, she never mentioned what she had said, as if it had been an offhand remark.
Yet from then on, whenever Gu Shuning wanted something, Mu Suisheng helped her get it. And whenever anything stood in Gu Shuning's way, Mu Suisheng cleared it for her.
Gu Shuning hated her, yet could not help being grateful to her.
So in bed, while kissing and nuzzling close, she would threaten Mu Suisheng that if the future could not be changed, she would kill her.
But Mu Suisheng would only bite her lip and endure every emotion Gu Shuning poured out, never once saying a word in her own defense.
Gu Shuning hated that most of all.
But when Gu Shuning finally reached the position she had wanted and learned the truth she had never known in her previous life, she discovered that things were nothing like she had imagined.
Gu Shuning stood dazed amid the ruin of having everyone turn against her, when someone behind her gently drew her into an embrace.
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