After her coming-of-age ceremony, her father sends her overseas to polish her credentials.
A letter hidden in a secret compartment by her father reveals the truth: he intends to make way for his illegitimate children!
Sheng Zhaohuang, the legitimate daughter of an imperial merchant, forms alliances with members of the royal family, becomes a smuggling queen, and establishes the Against the Scales Alliance, vowing to overturn the game.
The moment she returns home, she walks straight into a deadly trap!
Concealing her identity, she starts from the bottom. Her father schemes shipwrecks, arson, and assassinations against her, but she turns each deadly trap into a move of her own, striking back and serving up face-slapping after face-slapping!
But her father has even more vicious tricks up his sleeve: a flawless illegitimate son arrives to seize power, a venomous mistress keeps her under close surveillance, and a series of “wills” form one trap after another. At the ancestral rites, he even exposes a shocking deception about her birth in front of everyone!
A sister’s marriage taken over, blood spilled at the ancestral hall, an inheritance storm… Sheng Zhaohuang outsmarts the patriarchal plot to destroy her, investigates a bloody case, drives her father to a stroke, and secretly conceives a child with her allies to secure her heir.
In the end, she stands before the throne with her son in her arms, destroys four forged wills, and claims the highest seat among the imperial merchants.
On the new page of the family genealogy, only an ink mark remains: Sheng, the Nameless.
