I saved a beggar, never knowing he was the prince who had been switched at birth in the imperial palace, the very Prince Jing later infamous for his cruelty. Because the Lin family had once given him a steamed bun, he brought the whole family to the palace after returning and showered them with wealth and honor. But that same year, I married a brutish rogue. On the third day of our marriage, I died after suffering unbearable humiliation. Reborn, I watched my legitimate elder sister and mother, as well as the father who had forced himself on my mother and later caused her death, treat the beggar I had saved with utter contempt, beating and cursing him at every turn. I could hardly wait to see their faces when they learned the truth.
