The Frail Stepmother Uproots the Willow Tree

“Sins in a past life, reborn in this one.” Wen Mingyun had always taken this saying as gospel truth. But life has a way of being thoroughly terrible: she transmigrated at birth, meaning she could die at any moment as an infant. After barely surviving to her early teens, marriage negotiations begin. In this era of arranged marriages, awful men are everywhere, and husbands selling out their wives for personal gain is practically a sport. To buy herself some peace, the Third Miss of the Wen family took to her sickbed indefinitely, occasionally coughing up blood for dramatic effect. Suitors vanished one by one. Unfortunately, her dream of dying alone in blissful solitude was crushed by her rigid, stubborn father, who threatened to drag her to the grave with him. Two coffins were placed in the family hall. He meant it. Left with no choice, Wen Mingyun began searching for a husband. After much deliberation, she settled on a widower with a kid in tow. He wasn’t young; by ancient standards, a man in his thirties was practically on borrowed time. She figured she could just outlast him. He already had a son, so no one could accuse her of being an unfilial wife who failed to produce an heir. He was wealthy, held considerable influence… why not nest somewhere comfortable and keep surviving in style?