What a Joke! You Suck Your Daughter Dry to Raise Your Son? The Audacity!

Before marriage, a woman obeys her father; after marriage, her husband; after her husband dies, her son...

After Lu Zhao mysteriously fainted and died, she transmigrated into an ancient world where women had no freedom and were reduced to tools. She found herself in the body of the eldest daughter of the second branch of the family, a timid, cowardly beauty who was out of favor.

Just because she had been seen with an unrelated man, her own mother beat her until she was covered in bruises, while her father treated her as a bargaining chip and forced her to marry into the dreaded Chen family for money.

Unwilling to accept the marriage, she struck back in kind, lashing her parents with a long whip and taking revenge on the younger brother who had bullied the original owner.

She confronted them and broke off the engagement, but found herself with no way out. When she realized there was nothing she could do to change things, she took a desperate gamble and schemed to make her wicked mother take her place.

On the day of the marriage:

Looking at her revolting mother, she fixed her with an icy gaze. “Is this what you meant by looking out for me and wanting what’s best for me? You found me a husband like this?”

Madam Shen forced a stiff smile. “Your husband’s family is wealthy beyond measure. Once you marry into it, you’ll want for nothing...”

Before she could finish, Lu Zhao gave the order and sent her wicked mother into the bridal sedan. “Since you think his family is so wonderful, why don’t you marry him instead? Consider it repayment for raising me all these years.”

After she fled the marriage, the Lu family was thrown into turmoil. On the road, she encountered a prince with a cold expression. With her quick wits, she helped him devise plans to control floods and epidemics, solving problems that had plagued the Great Jin for decades and earning an unprecedented achievement.

She rose to become a county princess, all to ask for one thing: “After Your Highness ascends the throne, please abolish the doctrine that women must obey their fathers before marriage, their husbands after marriage, and their sons after their husbands die. Give women their freedom.”

He looked at her with a gaze as gentle as water. “As you wish.”