In her previous life, Shen Li, daughter of the richest merchant in Jiangnan, married into the declining Jian'an Marquis household with a grand dowry and immense wealth. She gave up her business talents to devote herself to her husband Gu Qingzhou, pouring her fortune into his career. Yet her deep devotion was repaid with the cruelest betrayal. Gu Qingzhou not only used her dowry to cover family debts and bribe officials, but also carried on an affair with his dependent cousin Liu Rushuang. When Shen Li was secretly given a sterility drug by Liu Rushuang and lay bedridden, she was met with a cup of poisoned wine forced on her by Gu Qingzhou. As she died, she watched the treacherous pair seize her wealth and take her life. A thunderbolt strikes, and heaven has eyes! When she opens her eyes again, Shen Li is reborn into the third month of her marriage — the very day Gu Qingzhou comes bearing bird's nest soup, trying to sweet-talk her into handing over control of her dowry. This life, the virtuous noble wife is dead, and a vengeful demon crawled back from hell has awakened. Facing the vampire-like Gu family, Shen Li no longer endures. She strikes with thunderous force. They want household power? She summons twenty accountants to audit the books in public, tears apart corrupt stewards, and grips the marquis household's finances firmly in her own hands. They want to live off her? She cuts off all funding to the Gu family, serving plain vegetables and tofu every day, forcing the self-proclaimed upright Gu Qingzhou to desperation, signing high-interest underground loans. They try to frame her with witchcraft? She turns the plot around, bribes the shaman to expose the scheme publicly, making the scheming cousin a target of public disgrace. When Gu Qingzhou and Liu Rushuang are driven into a corner and attempt to drug Shen Li to ruin her reputation at the old matriarch's birthday banquet and swallow her fortune, Shen Li coldly sets an intricate trap. Swapping the plan and kic...
