A Ruined Dream, a Doomed Love

Ye Qingchen, the legitimate daughter of the Minister's household, was branded a jinx by a monk and cast out by her grandmother, father, and stepmother to a remote country estate. She lived there for over ten years. When she finally returned to the capital, her grandmother didn't care for her, her father didn't love her, and her stepmother was plotting against her. Everyone in the Ye household was more vicious and selfish than the last... The empress wanted to break off her engagement to her son. When an assassination attempt failed, she had no choice but to change tactics, only to end up threatened by Ye Qingchen instead... Ye Qingchen was a cunning tiger in disguise. She had returned to the capital to reclaim everything that should have been hers. She thought she'd succeeded in playing the fool to catch the tiger, but who knew her identity would turn out to be even more complicated...