My Husband Faked His Death to Welcome His Mistress, So I Wore a Hundred Miles of Red Wedding Finery to Marry His Enemy

In her previous life, Zhou Shuyi was widowed young. She raised the unborn child of her husband, who had died on the battlefield, until she finally brought his unruly child by a concubine to success and fame. Only then did she discover that she had been poisoned so deeply that she had little time left. But her husband, supposedly killed in battle, suddenly came back to life. He led his concubine by the hand to Zhou Shuyi’s bedside and told her that he hated women like her most of all: old-fashioned, scheming wives who ruled the inner household. The child she had raised with her own hands appeared at the door holding a torch. “Now my father is the God of War, The Outcast, second only to the emperor and above everyone else. Your life is nothing but a burden. I might as well end it today and return to my mother the position of principal wife that should have been hers.” Her mother-in-law, whom she had treated like her own mother, only stroked her adopted son’s head and called him her good grandson. A fire reduced Zhou Shuyi to ashes. When she opened her eyes again, she had been reborn on the day the concubine’s son entered the household. Since the Duke’s estate had treated her unjustly, she would bring it all crashing down! She would make the loyal and righteous heir, renowned throughout the land, into a prisoner despised by all! She would make everyone in the Duke’s estate join her in death for what they had done to her in her previous life! ...But what was going on with the Fifth Prince, who had agreed to work with her? Not only had he survived the deadly poison that was supposed to torment him to death, he had become a young ruler, capricious and ruthless. That night, in Zhou Shuyi’s bedchamber, the imperious young emperor’s eyes reddened at the corners as he offered her his golden seal with both hands. “How about I marry into your family?” Zhou Shuyi: No! What comfort was there in being a canary trapped in the imperial harem, compared with possessing a vast fortune and enjoying endless pleasures all to herself?