The slender figure lying on the bed slowly opened her eyes. The sight before her was the familiar ceiling of an old house, deeply ingrained in her memories.

    How many years had it been since she last saw this despised ceiling?

    Tong Haitang blinked away the natural tears that filled her eyes as she realized this supernatural occurrence.

    She had come back!

    Back to the time before she made the irreversible mistakes.

    Yet, at this moment, she felt the presence of another person in the bed and turned to look.

    It was Qian Tai, her husband in this life.

    The husband she abandoned in her previous life.

    The kind husband who didn't deserve a wicked woman like her.

    She didn't know how many days had passed since she married, but that didn't matter because she was back at the age of sixteen, when it wasn't too late to change everything.

    That was good enough.

    Her previous life's miseries began with her own vile nature.

    She was forced to marry Qian Tai by her grandfather's will, who raised her alone by selling herbs. He taught her how to find herbs and nurtured her special talent for distinguishing scents and locating herbs.

    Her life seemed simple until her grandfather took her to the city for the first time. The city's lights and liveliness enticed her, making her crave worldly pleasures. She began to seek herbs to sell for money to dress as beautifully as the city's girls. Her beauty and skill in earning money caught the attention of many mothers with sons, but none impressed her grandfather.

    Except for the eldest son of the Qian family.

    In Haitang's eyes, the Qian family was the least desirable, being poor with a sick member and an old cripple. The four sons were uneducated and only did farm work. They barely had enough money for one meal a day.

    Despite her disdain, Haitang couldn't defy her grandfather's will and reluctantly married into the Qian family as the eldest daughter-in-law.

    Throughout her time, the Qian family was a thorn in her eye. The bridal chamber was merely a partitioned space in the large bedroom shared by the four brothers, which annoyed her even more.

    Because her married life was not what she had hoped for, Haitang showed no interest in her husband and his family. Even after getting married, she continued to live as she had before, behaving like an unmarried woman, focusing only on dressing up beautifully to go into the city.

    The only thing she refrained from was becoming a Hongxing Chuqiang. Since their marriage, Qian Tai had never been harsh with her, so she still showed him some respect and did not go as far as to openly defy his family. However, she did nothing to make anyone in that household comfortable until the day she chose the wrong path.

    That day, her birth mother appeared.

    The Song family had learned of her abilities from workers at the city's drugstore, information that Haitang herself had boasted about. Her mother lured her with promises of a luxurious life, encouraging her to divorce Qian Tai and follow her to the city, aiming to exploit the daughter she had once abandoned as an endless source of wealth.

    To secure a divorce from Qian Tai and live like a city girl, Haitang went so far as to use the life of Qian Tai's mother as leverage.

    His ailing mother had a severe relapse and urgently needed money for treatment, but Haitang had hidden the household's money to force Qian Tai to write a divorce letter.

    From then on, the entire Qian family viewed Haitang with hatred, seeing her as a demon from hell.

    But she did not care. All she wanted was to leave and live the life she desired.

    In the end, Qian Tai was compelled to write the divorce letter.

    However, her actions that pressured her husband with his mother's life angered her grandfather so much that he fell ill. His condition worsened due to her neglect, and he eventually passed away.

    Who would have thought that the granddaughter he had raised would become an ungrateful one, causing his death due to her ambition? Although it wasn't a direct murder, there was no denying that his death was a result of Haitang's actions.

    After obtaining the divorce letter, she followed her mother to the city. Using her ability to find herbs, she generated income for her mother's family, making them wealthy in no time.

    For nearly two years, she used her special talent to amass wealth. Suddenly, her ability vanished when she accidentally inhaled a neurotoxic plant, causing her sense of smell to disappear instantly. From then on, every time she went herb-hunting, she could only use her eyes, unable to find high-value herbs again.

    Since then, her mother's family, once kind to her, turned to constant scolding and beating.

    Haitang endured such suffering, unable to escape, as the money she earned was sweet-talked away by her mother and grandmother, who promised to save it as her dowry.

    In reality, she had to beg for food like a beggar in her own home. If she couldn't find herbs, she was beaten. Even when she did find some, if they sold for little, she was still beaten and scolded.

    She endured living like a beast of burden for nearly a year before her mother sold her to a green lantern brothel to pay off her uncle's gambling debts.

    From a highly skilled herbalist, she became a courtesan, forced to entertain different men every day for nearly a year. Eventually, she fell further into disgrace, becoming a woman who cleaned excrement when she went blind from the poison she had inhaled. The poison had not been properly treated in time, thus not only destroying her sense of smell but also slowly corroding her retinas without her realizing it.

    She spent several years as a blind excrement cleaner. Towards the end of her life, she was finally freed from that filthy place.

    The person who helped her was none other than Qian Tai, her former husband, who happened to see her being beaten in front of the brothel.

    He gathered a large sum of money to redeem her and took her back to the Qian family home.

    Initially, Qian Tai's three younger brothers disapproved of their eldest brother bringing a wicked woman like Haitang back home. However, to avoid making their elder brother uncomfortable, they chose to remain silent. They did not intend to treat her badly; instead, they helped take care of their former sister-in-law, bringing her food, hiring a local woman to help her bathe and change clothes once a week, and calling doctors to treat her.

    But every doctor who saw her only shook their heads, as the poison had ravaged her body for too long, leaving no way to cure her.

    Returning to the Qian home, she learned that their parents had died around the same time.

    Old Qian was killed by robbers while on his way to buy medicine for his wife.

    Weak as she was, Old Madam Qian died of a broken heart shortly after learning of her husband's death.

    The four brothers were deeply grieved, and because of their trauma from their former sister-in-law's wickedness, none of them dared to marry. Thus, there were no daughters-in-law to help with their parents' funerals, and they had to rely on the married women in the village to assist with the funeral arrangements.

    Haitang lived under the care of the four Qian brothers for three months before the poison completely destroyed her nervous system, taking her last breath.

    In the final moments of her life, she blamed herself for causing the four brothers to be trapped in a nightmare. She wished to the heavens that if given another chance, she would repay their kindness.

    She wanted them to have better lives or, at the very least, have enough to eat every meal.

    She longed for a chance to repay the husband she had wronged so unforgivably.