Summary
I was cruel by nature.
To win Grandmother’s favor, I once cut flesh from my own body for medicine.
To compete for Father’s affection, I also feigned illness and framed my elder sister.
And yet I married the most upright, honorable gentleman in the entire capital.
Before him, I spent half a lifetime pretending to be gentle and good.
After years of marriage, we were harmonious enough.
Then my elder sister returned home after her husband’s death and fell to her knees before him.
She told him every wicked thing I had ever done.
With tears shimmering in her eyes, she said,
“If my sister hadn’t schemed against me, I should have been your wife.”
“How can you let such a vicious woman remain your wife?”
Qin Heng was bitterly disappointed in me.
He took my elder sister as a co-wife of equal rank and laughed at himself.
“Had I known what kind of woman you were, I would never have married you.”
Given another life,
I would not marry him.
“Young Master Qin is a man of impeccable character. I would not dare aspire so high.”