The Noblewoman Refuses to Be Used, and the Ungrateful Poor Boy Panics

[Reborn for revenge and catharsis + a Buddhist monk returns to secular life]“A Xue can never be a concubine, so I’m afraid I’ll have to send you to the underworld...” On the wedding night of her husband and his first love, Xin Jiuwei, his legal wife, vomited blood and died. In that life, blinded by love, she married her wet nurse’s son, Qi Huaiyu, and gave him everything the Xin family had to help him rise to power. But she never expected to raise an ungrateful wolf who would bring about her whole family’s ruin. Her elder brother was slandered as a wastrel and never recovered, until he was beaten to death after getting drunk. Her elder sister had her reputation for talent stolen, and every arranged marriage fell through, until she wasted away and died. And her father, who had struggled to hold the family together, was trampled underfoot by Qi Huaiyu as he rose to the top, only to die with regrets. Reborn, Xin Jiuwei returned to the time when the new emperor was still living among the common people. She knelt in devout prayer, gazing through tearful eyes at the white-robed Buddhist monk before her. “Holy monk, if you would only look back at me, I wouldn’t believe your eyes were truly empty.” Supporting a worthless husband had brought her nothing, so this time she would make a deal with the tiger, and entice the future emperor to dote on her and help her rise to power...