I Came Back to Destroy My Cheating Husband and His Scheming MistressChapter 1

After my husband consolidated the dual-branch inheritance, he took his sister-in-law and her two children to the capital to build a new life.

My daughter and I survived on wild greens we foraged ourselves, waiting for him in that freezing hovel for five long years.

The only news that ever came was that he'd inherited the Eastholm marquess title.

I carried my daughter a thousand miles to find him, and the guards at the gate beat us with wooden clubs like we were vagrants.

"Showing up at the Marquess's estate claiming to be family? You must be tired of living. Don't you know how our Lady deals with hussies who come sniffing around?"

I lay in a heap of my own blood. "...Lady?"

When I lifted my head, I could just make out Edith Henson in the distance, dressed like a noblewoman, her two children raised as the young lord and lady of the house.

Edith greeted us with a warm smile and set out a plate of pastries. They were laced with poison.

My daughter was starving. She wolfed down a piece and dropped dead on the spot.