The Scumbag Husband Favors the Concubine and Persecutes the Wife: The Matriarch Stops Pretending

However, in the end, she was forced to drink poisoned wine by the very child she had raised with her own hands, simply because she had constantly pressured him to strive for success. Her sister-in-law hated her, believing she was greedy for wealth and status and had forced her to marry someone she did not love. The Old Madam also felt she was too calculating and manipulative, and had always harbored a dislike for her. Her husband felt she was quite scheming, treating her with cold eyes and indifference. He believed she appeared noble on the surface, but in reality, she had borne a concubine-born son with a low-born woman. The Second Master was a gambler and greedy for wealth; because the female lead prevented him from gambling, he had been secretly harboring resentment against her. With such a tragic beginning and the sudden burden of motherhood, Han Zhi was determined to change her fate. She could not follow the same path as the original female lead. She would no longer stop her sister-in-law's romance with the scholar from a humble background, she would no longer force her son to study, and most importantly, she would no longer empty her own coffers to subsidize the Marquis's household.