Beauty Says No to Marriage

Shen Tang lived a whole life believing the woman who became empress was her older sister. She learned otherwise while dying: the sister was not her parents' child at all, and she was the one who killed the family. Shen Tang wakes up again on the day before that sister's wedding. The groom is a sickly man, and the marriage was arranged so that the bride would carry off his bad luck. The sister, afraid of being widowed within the year, had schemed to push Shen Tang into the sedan chair in her place. Once the match turned out well, she wanted it back, and Shen Tang spent the rest of that life being called the girl who stole her sister's husband. This time Shen Tang speaks first. She lays out the sister's soft words and what sits behind them in front of everyone gathered, and she refuses the match herself, the match every family in the capital had been envying. The sister is left holding a marriage she publicly disdained and a reputation she can no longer manage. Shen Tang goes after the rest of it from there, and she will take on anyone standing in the way, gods and Buddhas included.