She Cut the White Silk and Changed Her Fate

Huo Shaoyuan was reported killed in battle. He had arranged the report himself so that he could disappear with Sun Yuyao. Luo Yunshu, his wife, took her own life to follow him and to keep the family's name intact, and only after she died did she find out he was alive and settled with Sun Yuyao. Everyone else in the household came through the affair well placed. She wakes up alive again, at a point before any of it has happened. The displays of virtue from her husband's family read differently to her now, and she starts pulling at the scandal until parts of it are public. The arrangement that ends with her dying for him takes longer to get out of, and she works at it in stages. During this she meets Pei Xingyuan, the crown prince, and the two of them become attached.