In her previous life, Feng Yuxuan was foolish and naive. Her birth father schemed against her, and her auntie's feigned affection blinded her, until she actually begged her father to make the Third Concubine his primary wife.
Her birth mother's dowry was drained, her reputation was tarnished, her maternal family was slaughtered, and she died in a raging fire.
Even more absurdly, the Third Concubine's eldest daughter was the bastard child conceived from her illicit affair with another man.
Reborn in the flames at the age of fifteen, she put away every trace of naivete.
They wanted to ruin her virtue? Then the wicked would suffer the consequences of their own deeds.
They coveted her mother's dowry? She would reclaim every last bit, leaving them penniless and unable to buy new clothes or jewelry!
The Third Concubine caused trouble and was demoted to a bedchamber maid. Though she suffered humiliation, she managed to charm her way back into favor, coaxing the Marquis into promising to make her his equal wife.
Just as the wicked concubine was about to rise to the top, her powerful prince of a husband stepped in. An imperial decree appointing her as his secondary wife came crashing down, shattering the concubine's dream of becoming his equal wife.
After she purged every treacherous soul in the marquis's household, she pleaded for imperial favor on behalf of the virtuous Sixth Concubine and her Fifth Younger Brother, securing the title of equal wife for the former and raising the latter from concubine-born to legitimate.
In her previous life, she had lost everything. This time, she took revenge with her own hands and claimed all the splendor and glory.
