Chapter 1 — He Thought I Still Wanted To Marry, But Kieu Hoa Has Turned His Direction

In my previous life, on the day I got married to General Tieu Hanh, my younger sister, On Lien Nhi, suddenly knelt down in a crowded place, bowed her head, cried, and begged me.

“That day it was my sister who forced me to serve the general…”

“Now I have the general's bones and flesh in my belly.”

"Lien Nhi doesn't ask for fame, she just hopes that sister will be generous and allow you to enter the door together."

“Sister… the child is innocent.”

"If you don't agree, it's like forcing Lien Nhi to die."

The so-called "forced marriage test" was just her fabrication from beginning to end. I have never responded to anything. Even Tieu Hanh at that time never doubted me. But behind everyone's back, On Lien Nhi secretly hired mountain bandits, wanting to stop the palanquin in the middle of the road to exchange the marriage. Who would have thought that the bandits would have evil thoughts... She was humiliated and murdered on the spot. After Wen Lien Nhi died, her mother, Concubine Trinh, immediately accused my mother of forcing her concubine to death. Out of favoritism for our mother and children, my father ordered someone to beat my mother in front of everyone and then locked her in the manor, leaving Concubine Trinh to torment her every day. In the end, my mother died miserably. At that time, I was just pregnant and knelt down to beg my husband to reclaim justice for my mother. But Tieu Hanh - who has always been gentle with me - right in front of my mother's coffin, ordered the woman to use her hand to drop the child in my womb.

“If that day you are willing to let Lien Nhi enter the door…”

“She and the child did not have to die.”

“Wen Qingyan, today's outcome is all your own doing.”

Only then did we know... It turned out that Tieu Hanh and On Lien Nhi had secretly had an affair all along. In front of my mother's coffin, I and my unborn child, one body, two lives. Opening my eyes again, fireworks resounded outside the door. My body is still wearing a blood-red costume. And in front of me... Wen Lien Nhi was still kneeling at my feet, in the middle of a crowded place, begging like in her previous life.

"Sister! That day, because you suspected the general was promiscuous outside, you forced me to try to marry you."

"Now you have the general's bones and flesh, if you don't agree to let Lien Nhi enter the door."

"Lien Nhi doesn't have the face to live anymore, so she can only stab her head right in front of her palanquin."

Just like in my previous life, right when I was about to leave, On Lien Nhi rushed out, her tongue turning black and white.

"Lien Nhi doesn't seek fame, even if she only works as a maid, serving her sister and the general, she is already very satisfied."

My father is On The An, although he is only a third-rank mandarin, he holds a lucrative position of fortune-teller, and most of the officials in the capital respect him somewhat. Furthermore, today I am marrying a general, and the palace is full of guests. At this moment, all eyes were attracted by that sudden commotion. Wen Lien Nhi fully inherited Concubine Trinh's acting skills. Tears fell like rain as she cried, her appearance was pitiful to the extreme. Father frowned and glared at me, his voice filled with anger.

"On Thanh Nghien! Relying on her identity as a daughter, she dares to force my sister to try to marry me!"

"Normally, you and your mother bully Lien Nhi and her children, but my aunt still endures and advises me to prioritize harmony in the family and not to be mean to you!"

"I didn't expect to tolerate you doing this kind of evil!"

“Your mother is usually the one taught you like that?”

As he spoke, he glanced at my mother with disgusted eyes.

"Women are not disciplined, they are too motherly."

"I'm full of petty calculations, but in the end I still can't get on the table!"

As soon as that sentence ended, it immediately led to a buzz of chatter among the guests.

“I heard that Lord Wen's main wife is Mrs. Truong, from a merchant family.”

"I've never even read the women's training, how can that kind of woman manage a family?"

"Doting and pampering the daughter, being harsh with the concubine, there is no way to violate the mother's main house."

My mother is indeed from a merchant background. But in the past, if it weren't for her spending money to help her father pass the entrance exam, and using real gold and silver to pave the way for her father for more than twenty years, there would be no Wen family today. I know that you have long been cold-hearted towards that father who favored you and destroyed your wife. It was only because I was not yet married that you endured it until the end. In my previous life, my mother loved me and was threatened right on the wedding day, so she angrily scolded Concubine Trinh and her children on the spot.