After Switching Marriages, I Helped His Whole Family Rise Again

Shen Zhihe has died twice. When she opens her eyes again, she is back on the day before her wedding. Her cousin, Shen Mingzhu, weeps and demands to switch betrothed husbands. Rather than marry the frail scholar, she insists on taking Shen Zhihe's hunter fiancé.

In her previous life, Shen Mingzhu married into the Xie family and spent half her life a widow. Shen Zhihe married into the Huo family and wore herself to the bone before finally earning the title and robes of a general's wife. Now her cousin wants to snatch away that glory, so Shen Zhihe goes along with it and climbs into the bridal sedan bound for the Xie household.

On her wedding night, the husband swap is exposed. Her new in-laws rush back to her parents' home that very night to break off the engagement and demand compensation. Meanwhile, a renowned physician declares that Xie Yunzhou will not live to see twenty. Everyone expects her to become a widow, but with a small medicine clinic and the skills she has honed over two lifetimes, she treats her husband, protects her mother, and helps the Xie family turn their poverty into prosperity.

Later, Shen Mingzhu never gets to see her weeping and begging for help. Instead, she watches Xie Yunzhou recover and enter public service, while the entire Xie family rises to prominence. The path to becoming a general that Shen Mingzhu stole only grows narrower with every step.