After Being Reborn, I Just Want to Ask Why

Su Zheng was reborn.

It was the second month of his recovery, with forty-one days left to live.

In his previous life, he drank medicine for three months, believing until his death that it was keeping him alive. On the first day after his rebirth, he recognized nux vomica in the medicinal dregs.

At last, he understood. Someone wanted him to die of an illness, slowly and without anyone finding fault with the way he died.

But Su Zheng didn't want revenge.

He only wanted to know whose hand held the blade that killed him, and why he had to die...

His father still guarded against the second branch of the family as if they were thieves. His grandmother's Shou'an Hall housed the servant he trusted most. His second uncle brought his cousin to test him, and the Princess Royal's carriage just happened to stop outside his home. She just happened to lift the curtain and just happened to see him standing at the courtyard gate.

Then Su Zheng received an invitation to the son-in-law selection banquet once again.

In his previous life, he hadn't gone. Forty-one days later, he died in his own bed, never learning what had happened beyond the marquis's estate during those forty-one days.

This time, he accepted the invitation and went to the banquet.

At the banquet, the Princess Royal smiled and said something only he could understand: she was describing how he had died in his previous life.

A general who wants no revenge, a Princess Royal who knows everything, and a chessboard stretching from the inner halls of the marquis's estate to the imperial court on the border.

In his previous life, his life and death were nothing but a chess piece. In this life, he will flip the board over and see who's underneath.