A Bride Swap at the Traitor’s Estate

In her previous life, Shen Zhaotan was switched into the Marquis of Ningyuan's household by her stepmother and stepsister, landing what everyone envied as a "perfect marriage." In the end, it sent her to the imperial prison, stained her whole family with infamy, and left her to die a miserable death.

Reborn on the eve of the marriage swap, she refused to be a pawn moved at someone else's whim. Rather than let the marriage documents be exchanged for her, she personally handed the splendid Marquis household to her stepsister and married into the traitorous minister's household, a place everyone feared like the plague.

Xie Wugou, heir to the Xie family, bore the stigma of the Northern Frontier military grain scandal. His old wounds had yet to heal, and he was confined to the manor, yet he continued investigating the case in secret. With incomplete memories of her previous life, medical knowledge that let her examine injuries, and clues from the account books left by her birth mother, Shen Zhaotan gradually established her authority in the Xie manor and seized control of its household affairs. What began as "using the Xie family as a refuge" became "clearing the Xie family's name."

The household battles revolve around dowries, status, and ancestral rites. The court struggles conceal old cases, military grain, and a secret succession plot. Whoever chose a marriage took on the debts that came with it.

In this life, she never wanted a marriage that merely sounded good. She wanted to settle accounts with everyone who had harmed her and the Xie family, one by one.