【Imperial Court Intrigue + Domestic Intrigue + Swapped Lives + Lighthearted Comedy + Dimensional Shop】
The two daughters of the Ministry of Personnel’s Wen Shilang were both reborn.
The legitimate eldest daughter, Wen Qingwan, was well-versed in literature, gentle and dignified, excelling in all four arts of the zither, chess, calligraphy, and painting. Since childhood, even the slightest misstep in her behavior would result in her palms being struck with a ruler.
The concubine of Wen Shilang passed away shortly after giving birth to a daughter, and the minister transferred all his doting affection for his lost love to their child, naming her Mingzhu and treasuring her like a precious pearl.
Wen Mingzhu had been the belle of the capital since childhood, adored even by the Princes. However, as the illegitimate daughter of a minister’s household, she could not become the Crown Princess.
When the Crown Prince knelt to beg for her to be granted the position of a secondary consort, she refused, desiring a lifetime of mutual devotion with one man. When the imperial marriage decree arrived, she fled to avoid the wedding.
To save the lives of the hundreds in the Wen family, Wen Shilang forced his legitimate eldest daughter to take her place in the marriage.
The Emperor and Empress were pleased to see the Wen family’s legitimate daughter step in as a substitute. However, the Crown Prince harbored resentment toward Wen Qingwan from then on and never favored her.
Wen Qingwan restrained herself to uphold propriety, honoring her elders with filial piety. Even though the Crown Prince treated her as coldly as iron, she devoted herself wholeheartedly to him, personally attending to every matter. After enduring until the death of the Crown Princess, she was enfeoffed as Empress when the Crown Prince ascended the throne.
Meanwhile, Wen Mingzhu, having fled the marriage, wed the Heir of the Duke’s Mansion, only to discover after marriage that he was a mama’s boy, allowing the Elder Madam and his female cousin to torment her.
With the support of the Crown Prince and her father and brothers, she easily divorced. She then remarried the legitimate second son of the Prime Minister’s household, only to find him a sadist… Finally, when she married into a declining marquis’s household, she was beaten to death before she could even make a move.
Having married five times in five years, she died with everlasting regret.
Upon reopening her eyes, she realized that only the Crown Prince was worthy of her. She no longer sought to escape the marriage and even demanded that her Father marry her legitimate elder sister off to the worst domestic abuser.
Years later, when the Crown Prince was demoted to a commoner and she was left destitute on the streets, her legitimate elder sister had become a marquise with ten thousand households.
