The Wicked Matriarch Is Reborn to Atone, Desperately Winning Her Son's Favor

[Strong Female Lead, No Romance, Political Intrigue + Plot-Driven + Everyone Has a Thousand Tricks Up Their Sleeve]

In her previous life, the cruel matriarch Shen Yueyan mistreated her husband’s concubines and their children while spoiling her own foolish son. Later, one of her stepsons became the chancellor, while the other, the late empress’s legitimate son, ascended the throne five years later.

Shen Yueyan could have risen in status through her son, but her jealousy drove away one influential person after another, and the Marquis’s household ultimately fell into ruin under her care.

Reborn, Shen Yueyan understood that power was what mattered most. She mended her relationship with her two stepsons, devoted herself to raising her legitimate son, and vowed to restore the Marquis’s household to glory.

But who would have guessed that her foolish son had been poisoned, leaving him mentally impaired?

That her husband, long thought to have died in battle at the frontier, was still alive?

That the emperor, her son, had merely been using her to secure the throne?

Shen Yueyan felt no sorrow, only rage. As she sought revenge for her own son, she uncovered a vast, shocking web of conspiracy.

From marquis’s wife to duchess, from commandery princess to princess royal, from grand princess to empress dowager.

Shen Yueyan plotted and schemed, moving carefully at every step as she steadily gathered power and climbed higher.