In the Yuan Kingdom, the Zhenxi Grand General returned in triumph, yet he had fallen into a coma for several days.
The matriarch of the General’s Mansion wanted to find someone for a Chongxi marriage for her son. The noble ladies in the capital were all on edge, rushing to arrange their betrothals and marriages.
At the Su Mansion of the Minister of Public Works.
Su Liren viciously slapped his First Daughter, his face ashen as he cursed, “Wretched girl, your marriage to the Zhenxi Grand General has been set. Even if you die, I will send your corpse over.”
Su Nuan was knocked to the ground by the blow, her head striking the corner of a table. The intense pain caused her to faint.
Thinking she was feigning unconsciousness, Su Liren kicked her twice. “The Zhao Family has already sent the Divorce Letter. You will obediently marry into the General’s Mansion.”
Kicked awake, Su Nuan clutched her forehead. The shock and confusion in her eyes gradually faded. She had actually been reborn to the time before her wedding.
She slowly stood up and said coldly, “I can marry him, but you must return the jade pendant my grandmother left me.”
In her past life, before her stepsister poisoned her, she had said that this jade pendant contained a Blessed Land that could be claimed with a drop of blood.
Su Zhen, who was watching the commotion from the side, smiled smugly and flicked the green jade pendant hanging from her waist.
“This was a birthday gift from Father. Why should I give it to you?”
Su Liren snorted. “Hmph, trying to snatch your younger sister’s things. How petty and unpresentable.” With that, he turned and left.
Her seated stepmother, Cao Shi, adjusted the phoenix hairpin in her hair and said with utter contempt, “The dowry has been prepared. I’ll grant you ninety-nine taels of silver for your dowry chest. I wish you two an everlasting union.”
Su Zhen chimed in with a laugh, “Once Elder Sister marries, she and that general will become a pair of ghostly lovebirds. Isn’t that everlasting?”
Su Nuan looked coldly at Cao Shi. She had once been her mother’s handmaiden, yet she had climbed into her master’s bed.
The current emperor could not tolerate her mother, for her mother was the child of the former Crown Princess. Thus, he had repeatedly hinted for her father to confine her mother to the rear courtyard.
Her father, heartless and disloyal, had cruelly conspired with Cao Shi to poison her mother to death.
Unfortunately, by the time she learned of this, it was too late for revenge. If she didn’t teach them a lesson today, she would be failing this second chance at life.
Without another word, she grabbed the jade pendant with her left hand and yanked it free. With her right, she swung a wide arc and slapped Su Zhen, sending her sprawling to the ground.
As Su Zhen fell, she knocked against a nearby stool. Two of her front teeth instantly broke off, spilling blood all over the floor.
“My teeth… my teeth… Wuwuwu…”
Seeing her daughter’s teeth knocked out, Cao Shi lunged forward with a ferocious expression. “You little bitch, I’ll beat you to death!”
Su Nuan twisted at the waist, dodging Cao Shi’s grasping hands, and kicked her in the stomach.
Cao Shi grimaced in pain, clutching her stomach, unable to make a sound for a long moment.
Su Nuan stepped forward, grabbed Cao Shi’s hair bun, and held the phoenix hairpin in her other hand, scraping it back and forth across her face.
“A treacherous servant who betrayed her master is worthy of wearing a phoenix hairpin? Don’t provoke me. Otherwise, if I die, it will be your daughter who marries the general and is buried with him.”
Cao Shi was terrified, her eyes filled with dread. She couldn’t understand how this person, who was usually so mild-tempered, had suddenly turned into a life-reaping demon.
She stammered, “You can’t kill me, I… I am your stepmother.”
A thin, cold smile appeared on Su Nuan’s face. “You’re already sending me to be buried alive. Can’t I drag you down with me?”
Su Zhen, who was standing nearby, frantically shoved Su Nuan aside. She pulled Cao Shi up, and the two of them fled in a sorry state.
Su Nuan steadied herself against the table and placed the phoenix hairpin in her own hair. In this life, she would willingly marry into the General’s Mansion.
In her past life, she had followed them into exile. They felt they had wronged her and did their best to care for her on the road, but she had not appreciated it.
When they reached the place of exile, a natural disaster struck, and there was no food. To ensure she had enough to eat, her mother-in-law and sister-in-law starved to death.
When the Su family came to retrieve her, she had followed them back joyfully, only to be sent by them to be buried alive with the emperor.
Just like that, she was forced to drink poisoned wine by her stepsister and sent into the palace.
Although her younger brother-in-law had looked down on her, he was the one who avenged her and collected her body.
So in this life, she would take good care of them.
Just then, her handmaiden Dong’er ran into the room, her face full of worry. “First Miss, are you alright?”
Seeing Dong’er, Su Nuan’s eyes grew hot and tears welled up. This loyal, foolish girl. In her past life, she had tried to bring Su Nuan money, but Su Zhen had her beaten to death under the pretext of theft. It was so good that she was still alive now.
Suppressing her excitement, Su Nuan said, “Quick, trade clothes with me. I need to go out for a bit.”
Thinking Su Nuan was trying to escape, Dong’er took off her clothes without a second thought, and the two swapped.
After changing her clothes and hairstyle, Su Nuan shouted, “Get out! Get out!”
Then she lowered her head and ran out. The guards at the gate thought it was Dong’er being scolded and sent out, so they didn’t stop her.
Su Nuan found a deserted corner, bit her finger hard, and dripped the blood onto the jade pendant. Soon, she appeared in an unfamiliar place.
There were mountains and water here, as well as a small wooden cabin. In the fenced yard, tender Napa Cabbage grew in a vegetable patch.
She murmured in pleasant surprise, “There really is a Space.”
In her past life, her stepsister had said that the space she activated only had a small wooden cabin, with no yard, mountains, or water.
Perhaps only those with imperial blood could activate it. After all, her maternal grandmother was the Crown Princess, so she had a trace of royal blood herself.
She composed herself and left the Space, heading straight for the storeroom.
The storeroom was unguarded. The lock on the door had two keys, one held by her father and the other by her stepmother.
She bent down, found a rock, and smashed the lock open with both hands.
Right now, all the mansion’s servants were on the outer perimeter, so no one heard the loud noise of the lock being broken.
The storeroom was made of three connected rooms, filled with wooden furniture, large cabinets, and decorations, none of which were particularly valuable.
Su Nuan’s eyes sharpened. Anything she touched with her hand entered the Space. She didn’t care where these items landed inside; not a single grain of sand would be left behind.
After leaving, she collected the lock and chain from the ground. She could sell them for two hundred copper coins.
This was the main storeroom. There were also Su Liren’s private storeroom, her stepmother’s private storeroom, and her stepsister’s private storeroom. She would not let any of them go.
She discovered that after collecting the items from the storeroom, her body felt lighter, as if some mysterious power had been infused into her. She could now easily leap over a ten-foot-high wall.
Arriving at her stepmother’s private storeroom, Su Nuan smashed the lock and rushed in to collect the items, not even sparing the Offspring Bucket.
She chuckled softly. Cao Shi, you went to great lengths to plunder my mother’s belongings, but you’re not fated to enjoy them.
Without this wealth, your bloodsucking maternal family will tear you to pieces sooner or later.
She left Cao Shi’s courtyard and went to Su Zhen’s storeroom. The moment she saw what was inside, Su Nuan gritted her teeth in renewed fury. Her mother’s dowry was all here.
The betrothal gifts from the General’s Mansion were also neatly arranged.
She sneered, “You stole my fiancé and seized my dowry. Without money to support you in this life, let’s see how arrogant you can be.”
She repeated the process, taking the chain and lock on her way out, not leaving a single coin for the mother-daughter pair.
When she reached Su Liren’s private storeroom, she found that the door was actually made of iron. After smashing the lock, it took a great deal of effort to push the door open.
Inside were antiques, paintings, calligraphy, and bank notes, as well as a bookshelf filled with many letters.
Su Nuan casually flipped through them and discovered a shocking secret.