The Widowed Father Who Was Inherited (Matriarchy)

Wen Xuning transmigrated into the story before the villain had turned evil. At the time, the family had nothing, and the original owner was about to force herself on him.

The villain wore a plain robe, the tip of a knife pressed to his throat as he prepared to take his own life.

That was her little father, Song Yin.

Women of the Jiang Dynasty admired slender waists. The wind traced the narrow line of Song Yin's waist, making it impossible to look away.

Wen Xuning thought he deserved to be cherished, not bullied day after day for the sake of money.

She took it upon herself to support the family, earning a living and entering government service.

Things began to improve, but after her mother died, everyone pressured her little father to hang himself.

They all said Song Yin had caused her mother's death.

He had supposedly killed his wife. But who could blame him, when all he had to offer was the tears of a gentle, reserved, frail man who was easy to bully?

According to the laws of the Jiang Dynasty, a mother's death meant her daughter inherited her spouse. The handsome, taciturn Song Yin should have been hers, too.

Song Yin was sent to bring good fortune to a family whose master was on the verge of dying from illness.

She was almost nothing but a corpse, without a trace of life, but he had no choice but to accept his fate.

There was no wedding ceremony and no entry in the family register. He was hurriedly ushered into the household.

Married life meant caring day and night for his elderly wife, who reeked of decay, while also going out to earn money to support her spoiled, gambling-addicted daughter.

Song Yin had considered ending it all, but then Wen Xuning changed.

She draped an outer robe over his shoulders while he sewed, gently comforted him when he had nightmares, and wiped the cold tears from the corners of his eyes.

His dead heart began to burn again.

His wife died, and people wanted him to die, too.

As Song Yin put his head through the white silk noose, the woman he had once feared and avoided appeared like bright moonlight. The people who had been trying to drive him to his death did not dare utter another word.

She said, "Don't be afraid. Come to me."

A wife-killer?

She was alive and well.

1. The heroine's mother had been bedridden with a lingering illness. The hero must be chaste.

2. The hero was her little father in name only. He hadn't yet been entered into the same family register as the heroine's mother.

3. The heroine puts her own interests first and isn't particularly concerned with morality.

A recommendation for my friend's novel, The Sinister Crown Princess.

Xu Chen had always believed her father was an impartial judge.

She was lucky: although she was a woman, she had the chance to compete fairly with her brothers for control of the family business.

But after Xu Chen had defeated one brother after another with overwhelming force and was ready to take the helm, her own father sent her to a psychiatric hospital.

Only then did Xu Chen realize that she had always been nothing more than a whetstone, used to sharpen the true heir in her father's eyes: his beloved son!

And for a woman, a mere whetstone, to try to seize control of the family was an outrageous act of usurpation!

After spending ten years in the psychiatric hospital, Xu Chen became violent and sinister due to drug abuse.

Then, because of a mistake by a young nurse, she died in the hospital.

To her utter surprise, after her death Xu Chen transmigrated to a strange matriarchal world and found herself following the exact same script as in her previous life.

As crown princess, the emperor used her as a public target to shield and train the true heir he favored: the Sixth Princess, born to his beloved Imperial Noble Consort.

Xu Chen: Heh.

You all want to die.

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The year the crown princess came of age, Lu Qiuci was chosen as her principal consort and married into the Eastern Palace.

He could not disobey an imperial decree. But remembering the crown princess's cruelty and mercilessness, her fondness for whipping people for fun, and the several young attendants she had already beaten to death, Lu Qiuci felt cold from head to toe, his heart devoid of warmth.

Other newlyweds thought about how to live in harmony with their wives. He thought only about how to keep himself alive.

On their wedding night, the crown princess did not touch him at all. Lu Qiuci thought in despair:

He's done for...

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Many years later.

Lu Qiuci had never imagined that the wife he feared so deeply would not only never hurt him, but would always protect him, until he became the empress consort, revered throughout the realm, and the sole favorite in the imperial harem.

Theme: Breaking through conventional prejudice