00:00The first thing the young girl did after her rebirth was deliberately splash, scalding tea, onto her elder sister's face.
00:05The very next moment, the one who was supposed to be unconscious miraculously woke up and sat upright in shock.
00:09Their grandmother flew into a rage and immediately realized that the elder sister had not fallen ill at all.
00:14She had only been pretending to faint in order to break off her engagement.
00:17Since childhood, the elder sister had been betrothed to a prince's heir.
00:20However, one month before the wedding, he was suddenly the victim of an assassination attempt, was gravely injured, and fell
00:25into a coma.
00:26In her previous life, the young girl, unable to bear seeing her elder sister forced to marry a man doomed
00:30to remain unconscious, had kindly agreed to marry in her place.
00:33But not long after she entered the family, the heir woke up and fully recovered.
00:36Her good intentions backfired on her.
00:38The elder sister accused her of stealing her marriage and, consumed by hatred, secretly poisoned her, causing her death.
00:44Only at the brink of death did the young girl discover the truth.
00:46Her mother had indeed given birth to twins, but not two girls as everyone claimed.
00:50It had actually been a boy and a girl, fearing that the birth of a son would threaten her position.
00:53The second aunt had secretly swapped her own daughter with a male-in.
00:56After her daughter became the legitimate heiress of the Marquis family, she abandoned the baby boy.
01:00The young girl finally understood why her aunt hated her mother so deeply while excessively doting on the elder sister.
01:05They were in fact biological mother and daughter.
01:07She ultimately died, consumed by regret and bitterness.
01:10When she opened her eyes again, she had been reborn, returning three years earlier, the very day the heir had
01:15been attacked.
01:16A maid hurried in, reporting that the elder sister, overwhelmed with grief, had cried until she fainted.
01:20The young girl immediately remembered that in her previous life, this maid had been bribed by the second aunt to
01:25constantly lecture her about family duty,
01:26even using their mother's name as emotional pressure to force her into the substitute marriage.
01:30Without hesitation, the young girl slapped the maid loudly and ordered that she be given 100 more slaps to remind
01:35her of her place.
01:36She knew the news would quickly reach her aunt, just as planned.
01:39That evening, the maid returned in a panic, claiming the elder sister had suddenly coughed up blood and fainted after
01:43eating the bird's nest soup she had delivered,
01:45and that the old mistress was already conducting harsh interrogations under the second aunt's instructions.
01:49The maid accused the young girl of ordering the poisoning.
01:51But before any confrontation could occur, the maid suddenly died from poison herself.
01:55The young girl immediately understood.
01:57Her aunt had silenced the maid without hesitation to protect her daughter.
02:00Though old and frail, the grandmother sensed something suspicious.
02:03To preserve the family's reputation, she chose not to pursue the investigation further.
02:07Everyone then went together to visit the elder sister.
02:09Seizing the chance while serving tea, the young girl once again accidentally spilled the boiling liquid onto her sister's face.
02:14Caught off guard, the elder sister involuntarily revealed her act.
02:18Furious, the grandmother discovered she had been faking illness to escape the marriage.
02:21The elder sister dropped to her knees, begging not to be married into the princely palace.
02:25But if the broken engagement became public, the entire family would suffer consequences.
02:29So the grandmother firmly refused.
02:31The young girl thought everything was finally over.
02:33But the very next day, an imperial decree suddenly arrived.
02:36The imperial concubine ordered that the young girl marry the heir in place of her sister.
02:39Her father was enraged and prepared to go to the palace to protest.
02:42Knowing this was all the second aunt's scheme,
02:44the young girl nevertheless accepted the marriage to avoid putting her father in a difficult position.
02:48That night, the elder sister sent the wedding dress in advance, hoping to provoke her.
02:52But the young girl accepted it without the slightest emotion, which instead unsettled the elder sister.
02:56Fearing things might change, the elder sister spent the entire night soaking in icy water,
03:01determined to fall seriously ill the next day to force the marriage onto the young girl.
03:04Soon, palace officials arrived to fetch the bride.
03:07The young girl obediently put on the dress, appearing ready to go through with it.
03:10The second aunt hurried to push her into the bridal sedan.
03:12At that moment, the young girl suddenly lifted her veil and declared that no one would marry that day.
03:17Because the heir was about to wake up, the guards were skeptical.
03:19She then removed her hairpin and pointed it at herself,
03:22swearing that if the heir did not awaken, she was willing to die alongside it.
03:25Fearing a tragedy, the guards had no choice but to return and report.
03:28Furious, the second aunt rushed to complain to the grandmother.
03:31The grandmother summoned the young girl to the main hall and demanded to know why she was so certain.
03:35The young girl lied, saying her mother had appeared to her in a dream and told her the heir would
03:38wake that very day,
03:40and that she already felt guilty about the substitute marriage.
03:42The grandmother simply ordered her to kneel before the ancestral tablets to atone.
03:46At that moment, the father suddenly returned to the manor and announced,
03:48the heir had indeed awakened.
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