Call Me a Cursed Old Widow? I’ll Face-Slap Them All and Claim the Throne

【Alternate Dynasty + Palace Intrigue + Second Marriage + Reconciliation】 Xiao Lanyu, the daughter of a wealthy merchant, was forced by an accident to break off her engagement to her poor scholar fiancé and marry someone else. Unexpectedly, her husband died young. Widowed and hated by her mother-in-law, she suffered endless torment in the household. Just as she was giving in to despair, a familiar figure appeared before her. “Lanyu, I’m here.” Her former fiancé, the man whose engagement she had broken off, actually swept her into his arms right in front of her mother-in-law! Xiao Lanyu’s eyes widened in disbelief. Her frail body trembled with fear. An affair under her mother-in-law’s roof? Was he... here to take revenge on her?