Seeking a Better Match: I Won't Be the Mistress of This Great House

Household Intrigue + Rebirth, Revenge, and Face-Slapping + Sweet Romance with a Brocade Guard Wei Jingwei is the eldest legitimate daughter of the Wei family. She falls for a top scholar and marries beneath her station. On their wedding day, her husband’s family conspires with a doctor, claiming she is unwell, and neglects her for the next ten years. Believing she owes the Mei family, she manages the household and carefully raises her adopted son. In the end, her health gives out. Only after her adopted son has achieved success does she learn she has been deceived all along. The so-called adopted son is actually the child her husband had with the woman he has always loved. And her supposed illness was nothing but an excuse! His mistress comes into the household and points at Wei Jingwei, saying she occupied her place for ten years and that it is time to give it back. Wei Jingwei is so furious that she coughs up blood and dies. After decades spent building the household, she never imagined her husband would not love her, and even the child she raised belonged to him and the woman he loved. Wei Jingwei cannot accept this. Reborn, she will no longer exhaust herself for others or work herself to the bone sewing wedding clothes for someone else! She will repay blood with blood and make sure everyone rots together.