The Duke's Widow Ranks Above Them All, and My Scumbag Husband Kneels and Calls Me Mother

[Eleven-Year Age Gap + Reborn for Revenge + Face-Slapping and Putting Scumbags in Their Place + Scumbag Husband and His Mistress Pay the Price + Household Intrigue + Sweet Romance]

I was the legitimate daughter of the Duke of Qin's household. To repay a debt of gratitude, I married Xie Bainian, the eldest son of the Xie family.

During our six years of marriage, I managed the household and raised our child. I wore myself out at a young age while my dissolute, idle husband used my family's influence to climb higher and higher.

But when the Qin family fell into disgrace, my husband feared being implicated and wrote me a divorce letter. Then he turned around and courted the Chancellor's second daughter, waiting only for me to leave the Xie household so he could raise his pregnant concubine to the status of wife.

Afraid I would compete with her for the Xie family's fortune, the concubine urged my five-year-old son to poison me. I died in agony, blood pouring from every orifice, forced to watch my son sob uncontrollably before my husband beat him to death with the family rod for the crime of gross filial impiety.

When I opened my eyes again, I had been reborn in the body of Wen, Xie Bainian's adoptive mother. My former husband now bowed his head and called me Mother, with his concubine beside him. And the Duke of Qin, long rumored to have died in battle, was walking toward me step by step, calling me Madam in a hoarse voice…