I Won't Be the Female Lead's Foil in a Marriage Swap, Starting with Breaking Off the Engagement

Zhao Fu’s personality and fate were predetermined: she was meant to be the foil to the heroine’s cousin. Her cousin was patient and clever, composed and sensible. She was vicious and spiteful, narrow-minded and ignorant. Whoever her cousin married would rise to prominence, and their family would prosper. Whoever she married would see their family ruined and meet a tragic end. She was reduced to a ridiculous foil. Reborn once more, Zhao Fu woke up to the truth and refused to play along. She absolutely would not marry! But no one expected that even if she stayed unmarried, her tragic fate would still follow her. When remaining at home without marrying began bringing disaster upon her family, she decided to take a chance on someone powerful: she would marry a minister who threw the court into chaos and was feared by everyone, and rid the people of him. Everyone thought she was ridiculous. How could an older woman who had broken off her engagement and sworn off marriage dare to set her sights on Marquis Xie Fuheng? Who could have guessed that Xie Fuheng would personally come to propose, then bring her home in a grand bridal sedan chair?