Chapter 1 — Both Lives – We Live Well

Step-mother, step-sister and father were all reincarnated. The first thing they did was to take away my husband from my previous life and marry my step-sister. In my previous life, I devoted all my heart and soul to supporting him, helping him step into the official field, eventually worshiping the Prime Minister and ruling the court. As for me, I also personally placed him under house arrest, making him have only me as his wife for the rest of his life. His position reached the pinnacle of power, and he loved his wife so much that everyone in the capital admired him. After I finished my marriage, I don't know why I was reborn back to the time my father planned the marriage between me and La Vinh Quan. Unexpectedly, I heard my father say he wanted his step-sister to get engaged to La Vinh Quan. I was extremely surprised and also extremely confused. Obviously it wasn't like that in the past life. But when I saw the greed evident on the faces of my father and step-sister, I immediately understood. Their father... has also been reborn. They are craving for the infinite glory and wealth that I had in my previous life. I am the daughter born from my father's house, and the only child my mother left him. When I was nine months pregnant, on a heavy rainy day, my mother unfortunately slipped and fell, and in the end, due to difficulty giving birth to me, she passed away. After I grew up, I asked my mother's close relatives and secretly had them investigate again, and the results showed that what happened that year was indeed just an accident. After my mother passed away, as usual, when I was still in diapers, my father was forced to remarry and marry a new wife to take care of the newly born child, me, and at the same time take care of the aftercare. Therefore, my father married Thuong Thi — who is also my current stepmother. After entering the palace, in just three years, Thuong Thi consecutively gave birth to two children, a boy and a girl, and her position in the palace became increasingly stable. Since she became pregnant, her attitude towards me has become a lot colder. When she gave birth to her eldest son, she didn't even bother to hide her indifference. She was too lazy to even give me a look. And my father gradually favored Thuong Thi and her two children, but towards me he became more and more distant and cold to the extreme. Now that I have been reborn again, my father has seen with his own eyes how brilliant I was in my previous life. Wanting to fight for the daughter he favors a good future is not difficult to understand. The glory and wealth that we had in our previous lives, is it something that can be easily achieved? In my previous life, when I married La Vinh Quan, his academic reputation was nothing more than a co-doctorate status, and he was also ranked last, ranked 293rd (two hundred and ninety-third). To put it bluntly, according to common sense, it would be difficult for him to even have the opportunity to be appointed as an official by the royal court. And if you want to rely on money or connections to buy an official position, then that's even less his part. His family background was just that of a small household. His parents relied on a small business in the street and corner of the market to diligently raise him for education. In several generations, no one in the clan had ever stepped foot into the officialdom. Most of the people who can read the books are not the children of wealthy families but are also descendants of powerful families. How could it be his turn to buy officials like that? After I married La Vinh Quan, main My eyes saw him waiting at home for more than a year, then running around, taking care of relationships for more than a year, but still did not receive an appointment letter from the royal court. The path to becoming an official was almost cut off. But later, La Vinh Quan not only stepped onto the official road, but also gradually advanced, even worshiping the Right General... All of that - It's all thanks to me. I personally used some of the gratitude I had accumulated from before to ask a young man from a noble background to help La Vinh Quan arrange a position. Thanks to that, he was able to be appointed as a district commander in a remote area. Otherwise, with his ability, I'm afraid I won't be able to get an official position in my entire life. But having to come to take office in that far away place... was also requested by me. Because after more than a year of observation, I have seen through La Vinh Quan's personality - only a facade, essentially useless. He only knows how to maintain a moral appearance, good at standing on morality and criticizing others, but cannot offer a real solution. If we let him stay in the capital or other prosperous places, I'm afraid it will ruin things and implicate the whole family. But I... don't want to die early because of being infected. Sure enough, after he arrived at the place to take office, my judgments were confirmed time and time again. He doesn't know how to investigate. Someone came to report losing money, the situation hadn't been investigated clearly yet, he was already talking endlessly about filial piety, brotherly love, shouldn't treat parents like this, shouldn't treat brothers like that... He also didn't understand basic practical things. Someone came and said:

“Master Thanh Thien, the fields in our town no longer have water to irrigate!”

He just stood there and said a bunch about how important fields are, how important people's lives are... He also doesn't understand people's lives. Some people came crying:

"Master! It's a natural disaster! We're about to starve to death!"

He just stood there spouting a bunch of morals, what was important, what was necessary. His subordinates asked him what to do next, but he couldn't say any specific solution. Fortunately, since I was still in the boudoir, I long ago had no hope of joining my family. I used to think, if my husband is not trustworthy in the future, what should I do? Do we really have to suffer all our lives? So from a very early age we started learning all kinds of knowledge. We learn if the husband has no money, how to do business, and if the husband is an official but has no ability, how to become an official. Things like investigation, irrigation... I've really seriously researched them. Every time La Vinh Quan frowned, was confused, and returned home frustrated because he couldn't think of a solution, I immediately told him how to handle it.