[Historical Loop + Reborn After Every Elaborate Death to Take Revenge]
Huang Yuanyu is the wife of a scholar in Pingyuan County. For four years after their wedding, they treated each other with respect, and their life together was ordinary but peaceful.
Until her husband ran up gambling debts and pawned her off to a wastrel of the Xie family, making her a temporary wife.
The Xie family of Huainan had held high office for generations. Their influence reached from the imperial court to the countryside, and they did as they pleased.
On the second day after her arrival, the wastrel's legal wife forced poison down Huang Yuanyu's throat, killing her on the spot.
When she blinked, she was alive again, returned to twelve hours before her death!
This time, Huang Yuanyu would change her fate!
Then... she caught Madam Xie having a secret meeting with a servant, and died again.
Fine.
Next time! Next time, she would tell her husband that the Xie family was dangerous and beg him to save her from this living hell!
But...
Her mother-in-law, who always claimed to treat her like a daughter, drugged her and had her tied up.
Her husband, who had promised never to leave her, accused her of adultery instead.
The county authorities, acting on the Xie family's instructions, twisted the truth and sentenced her to be stripped and flogged ninety times.
In the pouring rain, Huang Yuanyu was thrown out of the county office like a rag. Blood streamed beneath her, and she was barely alive.
Passersby were afraid of getting into trouble and kept well away.
Only one person came near, holding an umbrella to shelter her from the storm. His distinctively jointed fingers brushed the hair from her forehead. He was the only warmth she had found in all these loops.
Huang Yuanyu felt her heart stir and struggled to make out the kind stranger's face.
But in the next moment, the stranger grabbed her by the nape and lifted her up.
His dark eyes were unfathomable, his voice chilling:
"So you're the one who's been making me relive this over and over."
Huang Yuanyu: ??? Something doesn't seem right here?
*
Su Yinien, the newly appointed magistrate of Pingyuan County, had a frail constitution but a strikingly beautiful face. He was extravagant, debauched, frivolous, and lazy, a playboy who had bought his official post.
Only Su Yinien knew that he had been nursing a deep blood feud for twenty years, and had spent years plotting to make the Xie family pay.
Su Yinien carefully ingratiated himself with the Xie clan, sharing drinks and conversation with its members.
The next moment, he suddenly found himself back at the appointment ceremony from the day before.
Su Yinien: ?
Su Yinien proceeded cautiously, seeking out people from the past just as he was about to sound them out.
The next moment, he was back at the appointment ceremony at the county office.
Su Yinien: ???
After several loops, Su Yinien finally found the culprit.
He lifted Huang Yuanyu like a little chick and looked her over with exasperation.
She was dealing with nothing more than a useless husband who'd sold his wife for advancement and a few bullies who threw their weight around. How was she dying so quickly?
Leave it to him! He'd teach her how to fight them, step by step!
* Fictional dynasty
* The female lead has no prior sexual experience, while the male lead does. The female lead is 19, the male lead is 25.
* The female lead grows stronger and will stand on her own later in the story. This blurb only covers the early part. The leads save each other, and neither can win without the other.
* A temporary wife: a wife whom her husband pawns, pledges, or rents to someone else for a set price and period, treating her as his personal property.
The Changing Legal Status of Women in Republican-Era China and Its Representation in Modern Chinese Literature
Theme: Establish a moral compass for the world, and secure a future for the people
