Reborn, the Sickly Girl Steals a Wife

The Kunze bride from the neighboring village was gentle and lovely, but she had entrusted herself to the wrong man. Her husband was not only idle and hopelessly addicted to gambling, but also beat and scolded her at every turn. His mother-in-law treated her with endless cruelty and made trouble for her at every opportunity. Still young, the bride was worn down by hard labor and fell gravely ill. After just two years of marriage, she was beaten to death by her drunken husband.

She wasn't even given a proper coffin. Her body was wrapped in a straw mat and tossed onto the mass grave, without a grave or a marker.

Chi Li had been frail and sickly since childhood. Though she was a Qianyuan, she couldn't lift a finger to do hard labor, and everyone in the village knew her as a useless weakling. But no one knew that the weakling loved the young bride...

The weakling sold everything she owned to bury the bride, then set a fire to avenge her. Amid the blaze, Chi Li kept her secret to herself until she died.

But she never expected that Heaven would give her another chance.

Chi Li returned to a time before the young bride had married into the village. This time, she got there first. With the money her parents had left her for medical treatment, she went to ask for the bride's hand. It didn't matter if she couldn't be cured; she had to bring home a wife...

The sickly woman was handsome, and her gaze was so gentle it seemed to melt. Hetang blushed and fell in love at first sight.

But she was already engaged. She had to threaten to take her own life before her parents finally relented and let her marry the sickly woman, as she'd wished.

On their wedding night, however, she was plagued by nightmares. In her dreams, she had married the neighboring woodcutter, the man she'd been engaged to before.

She worked from dawn till night, and whenever the woodcutter was displeased, he beat her. She never had enough to eat or wear and was tormented until she was covered in aches and pains while still young. When she fell seriously ill, the sickly woman, who could barely care for herself, was the only one who secretly brought her medicine and food...

When Hetang woke, she thought long and hard. She would rather live in hardship as a single mother than marry the woodcutter instead.

So, gritting her teeth and steeling herself, she gave her sickly wife a potent dose of medicine.

In time, she did indeed get pregnant. But her sickly wife grew more vigorous by the day, able to hoe five mu of land in a day and taking care of all the laundry, cooking, chickens, and pigs. She pampered Hetang until she never had to lift a finger...

Theme: Life offers no second chances, so don't leave regrets behind