(Black-lotus concubine-born daughter + two powerful leads taking down scum + political intrigue and revenge)
Song Zhaozhao, the most lowly and least promising concubine-born daughter of the Yongning Marquis’s household, is one tough little survivor who just won’t stay down.
After her father and birth mother, Concubine Yue, die, she is left alone to survive in the cracks of the Yongding Marquis’s household.
Her maternal uncle is a general who guards the borders, so her legitimate mother doesn’t dare do much to her.
Her uncle can protect her for a time, but not for a lifetime.
When turmoil strikes the marquis’s household, she is sold into servitude and suffers endless humiliation.
Sent to the Yihong House, where she endures one torment after another, she rises up in fury and becomes its top courtesan.
The man who strikes a deal with her quietly rescues her from the mire and promises her a peaceful life after her name is cleared.
All she wants is the freedom to live as she pleases and a stable life.
