My Family's Emotional Abuse Turned Me Dark, and I Became a Top-Tier Mad Beauty

[Unhinged, ruthless heroine + powerful woman + the powerful bow to love + long-planned schemes + the whole family’s desperate attempt to make amends] At eighteen, Jiang Wanyin walked out of the Women’s Virtue Academy, her body covered in scars. Once the pampered heiress of the Jiang family, she had become its discarded child. At her coming-of-age ceremony, the adopted daughter Ji Nuan wore Jiang Wanyin’s crown and accepted everyone’s congratulations. Her parents looked on coldly, while her older brother gripped the festering wound on her wrist and scolded her: “Why haven’t you learned your lesson yet?” She smiled and plunged a cake knife into the name “Ji Nuan,” splattering scarlet frosting onto her wedding-dress-like gown. She stroked Ji Nuan’s trembling cheek, the knife tip drifting like a snake. “At the Women’s Virtue Academy, I learned one thing: instead of repaying evil with virtue, it’s better to fight cruelty with madness.” When the lecherous hand of a spoiled young master brushed her clothes, and her green-tea sister’s tears once again fooled the whole family, she tore off the mask of hypocrisy and crushed every scheme and trick. Until the sinister man gripped her bloodstained chin. “Shall we make a deal? I’ll burn down your hell, and you’ll kill a god for me.” In this feast of revenge, they were each other’s only true believers.