(Household intrigue + palace intrigue + strong heroine + revenge + satisfying read + heroine devoted to her career)
Fu Yunqing was saved by the daughter of the Minister of Rites, only for her savior to be brutally murdered that very night.
Burdened by hatred, she makes her way to the capital.
She assumes another identity, enters the Minister’s household, and becomes its least favored daughter born to a concubine.
She clears a concubine of suspicion in the poisoning of the legitimate son and exposes the truth about the legal wife’s baby swap, only to discover that the concubine had been using her all along.
She confronts the concubine: “I helped you. Why did you lie to me?”
The concubine shakes her head. “Second Miss, stop asking. The person who poisoned your mother is far too powerful. You’re an orphan; there’s no way you can take them on.”
Wan’er presses her: “Is it someone from the imperial family?”
The concubine shakes her head, bites her tongue, and kills herself.
She only wanted to avenge Madam Wang and her daughter, but discovers that the case reaches all the way into the imperial palace.
To get into the palace, she schemes to ruin the legitimate daughter’s virtue, then takes her place and marries into Prince Jing’s household. On the very first night, she is left alone in an empty bridal chamber.
Prince Jing does not love her and has doted exclusively on his favored concubine for years. The concubine frames her time and again,
then blames her for the death of a child, making Prince Jing loathe her.
An imperial decree banishes her to the bitterly cold land of Youzhou.
No. She absolutely cannot lose. She is the daughter of the head of the Imperial Medical Academy, and her entire family was slaughtered on her wedding day. She has come this far for revenge. She will never accept her fate…
P.S. The heroine is focused on her career. She won’t let go of fine clothes and food, wealth and status, or power: she wants it all.
