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 Shen family's legitimate daughter, bringing a grand bridal procession stretching ten miles. On their wedding day, her husband received an imperial edict ordering him to war, but he died on the supply route before ever reaching the border.

Shen Tingwan shouldered the entire Pei family through turbulent times. She cared for her mother-in-law and loved her stepson as if he were her own, spending every last bit of her wealth on his education. But after he passed the highest imperial examination, he had her thrown into an underground water prison, where the freezing water made the flesh on her body rot away inch by inch.

Meanwhile, the husband who was supposed to have died on their wedding day wore fine clothes and embraced a beautiful woman as he laughed at Shen Tingwan for being as stupid as a pig, saying she had spent her whole life working herself to the bone to make wedding clothes for his family of three!

Heaven took pity on her and granted her the chance to be reborn. She cut off their money, fought his mistress, and toppled the marquis's household, forcing the scoundrel who had faked his death to come home and grovel. Shen Tingwan simply cut them down one by one, collecting everything they owed her, with interest!

Only after avenging herself did Shen Tingwan discover that she wasn't the only one who had been reborn. The person who had been quietly helping her all along had been there for her from the very beginning...