Tragic Death and Rebirth, The Entire Empire Kneels and Calls Me Ancestor!

After Duan Ming Xi married Gao Zhan, she followed every rule, observed the three obediences and four virtues, and treated her parents-in-law with respect and filial devotion. Gao Zhan helped the new emperor ascend the throne, earning great merit for supporting him. His first act was to have her divorced on the grounds that she disrespected her in-laws and had borne no children, then ask the emperor to grant him permission to marry the woman he loved. After ten years of marriage, she was still a virgin, yet had to bear a reputation that could drive anyone to despair! Her ten years of endurance had become a joke. With the divorce papers before her, she plunged a knife through Gao Zhan's chest, then set fire to the Duke of Gao's estate, burning everyone who had fed off her flesh and blood to ashes. She would make the entire household pay with their lives!

When she opened her eyes again, she had returned to the time before marrying Gao Zhan. She was the eldest legitimate daughter of the Earl of Dingyuan's household, who had been away from home for more than a decade. Now that she had returned to her family, her mother disliked her, her father didn't love her, her younger sister was vicious, and her older brother was a worthless scoundrel. She exposed everyone's schemes, rejected the Gao family's marriage proposal, and turned to join Prince Rui's side instead. Everyone called her a ruthless, wicked, two-faced poisonous lotus who did nothing but evil!

In this life, Duan Ming Xi was determined to see what Gao Zhan could do to win people's hearts without her generous dowry, and how the people of the Earl of Dingyuan's household could repeat their former glory without the wealth of her adoptive parents. This time, the Gao family would never earn merit for supporting the emperor. She would help the crown prince's greatest rival take the throne. She would claim the merit of supporting the emperor, and she would claim the future emperor, too!