[Golden Finger + Slightly Absurd] CP: Black-Hearted Lotus Heroine VS Wife-Obsessed Hero. Foils: Black-Hearted Native Woman VS Self-Interest-First Transmigrator
When Han Xiao was five, her father falsely accused her cousin, the Crown Prince's uncle, of treason. Her maternal relatives were all executed, her mother was drowned in a pond, and Han Xiao was left to wander the countryside, where she became the Shen family's child bride.
A divine bird calling itself Qingluan gave her a jade ring that let her see a person's past and future. Through it, she learned the secrets of her child groom's entire family.
Her woodworking-obsessed father is a prince.
Her gentle, lovestruck mother is the leader of a band of sea raiders.
Her boastful, gossipy grandmother is a eunuch.
Her farming-obsessed grandfather is an imperial bodyguard.
Her domineering maternal grandmother is a real heiress having a late-life breakdown.
Her cowardly maternal grandfather reenacts a late-life tale of chasing his wife after driving her away.
Her desperate-to-marry eldest sister arrives in tears to identify a corpse, and the morgue becomes the setting for a romance between the living and the dead.
Her second sister takes what she wants and refuses to take responsibility, in a tale of him chasing her while she runs, with nowhere for her to hide.
Her seemingly innocent but secretly scheming child groom is a lovesick wife-obsessed fool.
Han Xiao was the wife Shen Zhishu chose for himself when he was twelve. When his wife asked him, "Shall we rebel?" he answered without hesitation: "We can."
When Han Xiao was fifteen, she fought her way back to the capital. The daughter her scumbag father had with the woman he loved had become Crown Princess.
The Crown Princess came from several centuries in the future and was bound to something called the "Empress Development System." So what? A wild chicken is still a wild chicken. Feathers won't make it a phoenix.
With slow, relentless pressure, she turns her scumbag father's family against one another. The proud, aloof Crown Princess asks what she is trying to do.
"Of course I'm rebelling. I didn't do it ten years ago, so now I have to make it happen for real, or all those people will have died for nothing."
[Reading Guide] The leads first appear at age twelve. Their growing-up journey is a slow burn, absurd, and full of comeuppance for scumbags.
