I Still Ended Up Clinging to This Powerful Patron

After being double-crossed by her "warm-hearted" ex-husband's whole family and her "loving" aunt and cousin, Cheng Rong left the courthouse after her divorce, only to be knocked unconscious by a middle-aged woman riding an electric scooter through an alley. When she opened her eyes again, everything was unknown: the new world, her new identity, her new parents, sisters, relatives, and friends. To get by safely in a new dynasty that wasn't even in her history books, it seemed that the road ahead would be long and she'd have to keep working hard.

Newly arrived in this world and several decades younger, the newly reborn Cheng Rong resolved to grow up happy. She changed her ways: speaking pleasantly to everyone, smiling before she even opened her mouth, and pouring out all the flattering words stored in her mind as if they cost nothing. She took her knack for flattery to new heights. From the fifth young lady of the Cheng family, bullied by everyone and hiding in a corner, she gradually turned things around: she won over her difficult grandmother, caught the eye of her biological father, who couldn't even remember her name, and got her biological mother, who had cast her aside to fend for herself, to spend heavily on improving their living conditions, putting a stop to...

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.