After Five Years as a Widow in Name Only, the Matriarch Divorces Her Husband and Marries a Powerful Minister in Style

In her previous life, Shen Tingwan married into the Marquis of Ningyuan's household as the legitimate daughter of the Shen family, bringing a lavish dowry. On their wedding day, her husband received an imperial order to go to war, but before he even reached the border, he died while transporting provisions. Shen Tingwan shouldered the burden of the battered Pei family alone. She cared for her mother-in-law and cherished her stepson as her own, spending her entire fortune to support his studies. But after he passed the imperial examinations and became a top scholar, he turned around and threw her into an underground water prison, where the icy water made the skin all over her body rot away. Meanwhile, the husband who was supposed to have died on their wedding day wore fine clothes, embraced a beautiful woman, and laughed at her for being as stupid as a pig. She had spent her whole life toiling for his family of three, only to pave the way for them! Heaven had not forsaken her: she was granted a second life. She cuts off their money, fights the concubine, and tears the marquis's household apart, forcing the scoundrel who faked his death to crawl back and beg for forgiveness. Shen Tingwan strikes them down one by one, reclaiming everything they owe her, with interest! Only after taking her revenge does Shen Tingwan discover that she isn't the only one who has been reborn. The person who has been quietly helping her all along had been coming for her from the very beginning...