(One couple, both reborn) Gu Wanning is the daughter of the richest merchant in Jiangnan, with a beauty so alluring she seems boneless.
At fifteen, she marries the third son of the Yingchuan prefect, a son born to a concubine. Her husband plots against her, wiping out her entire family.
Only after her death does she discover that she is the true heiress in a story about a real and fake heiress.
The fake heiress has usurped her place and, afraid the truth will come out, conspires with Gu Wanning's vile husband to send the entire Gu family to their deaths.
Reborn after a tragic death, Gu Wanning swears to avenge her past life.
Not one person who hurt her will get away.
Yet as she pursues revenge, a man named Pei Yu appears at her side.
*
When he was young, Regent Pei Yu was hunted down and rescued by Gu Wanning.
On the day Gu Wanning came of age, someone drugged her.
With no other choice, Pei Yu became her antidote.
After one night of pleasure, he was hooked.
At the time, his parents were both dead, and his own fate was uncertain.
He resolved to return and reclaim everything, then make her his wife.
Later, he became the powerful regent who held sway over the court, but Gu Wanning was already married.
So what if she was married? He would simply take her from him.
*
On the day they meet again, Gu Wanning learns that her husband has been sleeping with her half-sister.
Pei Yu offers himself to her, saying, “I'm only twenty and in need of a wife and daughter. Divorce your husband today, and I'll come propose tomorrow.”
Gu Wanning takes it as a joke. But after she divorces, and her life hits rock bottom, Pei Yu remains eager-eyed and devoted.
After ten years of marriage, Gu Wanning learns the truth.
Her half-sister seduced her former husband at Pei Yu's behest.
His gentle, refined demeanor was a lie; beneath it, he was full of schemes.
But so what?
One man schemes to take your life.
Another schemes for only one thing: you.
Chapters 64 and 65 have been revised. Those who have already read them, please review them again. ٩(๑•̀ω•́๑)۶