The Scheming Mercenary Princess

She’s a clever, ruthless mercenary who transmigrates into the body of the timid legitimate daughter of the Marquis of Anding’s household. She roots out corruption, punishes evildoers, and puts the household in order. The original owner was the marquis’s only surviving heir. Her grandmother showed her no affection, her uncle was greedy, and her cousin was a poisonous snake. The whole family was a pack of wolves and tigers, ready to steal her home and take her life. Framed for adultery and sentenced to be drowned in a pig cage, the proud and noble eldest daughter of the Marquis of Anding became the laughingstock of the streets, her reputation in tatters.

They enjoyed wealth and pleasure and benefited from others’ kindness, yet they were utterly devoid of conscience. Fine! Very well! Everything you took from me, you’ll give back! Think you can bury me in the dirt and keep me from rising again? At the Lantern Festival banquet, she dazzled everyone with her talents, becoming the center of attention and stirring up a whole pool of muddy water. She also set in motion a tangled romance.

He is the noble eldest imperial grandson, showered with every favor, yet frail and sickly, a pawn in the struggle for imperial power. He has power but no life to enjoy it, while she has her life but is constrained at every turn. A woman pursuing a man is a desperate measure to begin with. She never expected one wrong step to leave her deeply entangled, forced to plan every move and scheme at every turn! (This story was commissioned by Qing Ziyin.)