Forced to Take Her Own Life, the Reborn Heiress Tears Up the Marriage Contract and Topples the Dynasty

[Punish the Scumbags + Win Her Back + One-on-One, Both Leads Faithful + Female Lead and Male Supporting Character Reborn + Entire Family Faces Retribution] The emperor is gravely ill, and there are no princes in the palace. Yu Zhining has been married to Pei Heng, heir to Prince Jing, for three years. Their marriage is loving, and she is the Empress Dowager's secret daughter, raised away from the palace. The Empress Dowager loves her daughter and helps Pei Heng ascend the throne. Before the investiture, the Prince Jing's household tricks Yu Zhining into going to a temple to pray for blessings. She is abducted on the way and suffers unspeakable humiliation before the bandits abandon her at the city gates, making the scandal known throughout the capital. To save face, Pei Heng refuses to investigate the truth and instead forces her to kill herself, taking the life of their unborn child with hers. Just before she dies, her cousin tells her with a radiant smile that the bandits weren't bandits at all: her family hired people to impersonate them so her cousin could take Yu Zhining's place. They took her life and trampled over her corpse so her cousin could claim everything that should have been hers. And Pei Heng had let it happen! Yu Zhining dies consumed by hatred and is reborn on the day before her coming-of-age ceremony. She throws the embroidered ball and marries Pei Xuan, the dissolute heir to Prince Jing. The entire capital waits to see her make a fool of herself. But later, Pei Xuan becomes crown prince, and she becomes crown princess. Days later, Pei Heng's rebellion fails and the entire Prince Jing household is arrested. As Pei Heng's prison cart passes her, he kneels at her feet, eyes bloodshot, and begs for forgiveness: “A Ning, you should have married me!”