Only on the brink of death did Xing Yan understand that she had been nothing more than a stepping stone for her elder sister to become empress.
She had been tricked into "lending her womb" to bear a child, only for her elder sister to force a bowl of poison down her throat on the day she went into labor!
Holding Xing Yan's baby, her elder sister sneered, "A worthless stand-in like you thinks she can bear the emperor's child?"
Her elder sister gained honor through her son and was gloriously crowned empress, while Xing Yan died with hatred in her heart, unable to rest in peace!
When she opened her eyes again, Xing Yan had returned to the very night she'd been framed!
Her father sided with her elder sister? She'd have him thrown in prison!
Her mother protected her elder sister? She'd ruin her reputation!
The Emperor believed her elder sister? She'd tear off that black-hearted lotus's mask!
The favor and the throne her elder sister wanted... one by one, they would all become Xing Yan's!
Later, abandoned by everyone, her elder sister knelt in the snow for three days and three nights, pleading miserably:
"You're already the most exalted woman in Beiqing. Let me go..."
Looking down at her from above, Xing Yan said, "I never forced you to die. What are you so afraid of?"
After all, being worse off than dead was the best revenge!
