After Dumping the Jerk, the Powerful Minister Started Acting Strange

Modern-day star lawyer Lu Yan opens her eyes to find herself the legitimate daughter of an ancient prime minister’s household. Her former self was infatuated with the scoundrel Gu Ciyan, who used her until there was nothing left, leaving her disgraced and dead with regrets.

Given a second chance at life, Lu Yan wields the sword of the law and kicks her ambitious, faithless ex to the curb. Accounting fraud? She uses modern knowledge to expose the traitor. Noblewomen sneer at her? She rebuts them all with legal reasoning. Her ex proposes? She publicly lays out an itemized list and presents irrefutable evidence, sending him slinking away in disgrace.

As she tears through one scoundrel after another, she accidentally stumbles upon a murder case and crosses paths with Shen Yanbai, the regent whose eyes are cold behind his silver mask. One is a sharp-edged legitimate daughter of the prime minister’s house; the other is an unfathomable powerbroker. Sparks fly from their very first encounter.

When floods strike Jiangnan, she volunteers to head to the disaster zone, organizes relief through work programs, and punishes corrupt officials, winning widespread acclaim. As political tides roil the court, she shows up uninvited to make her case, and she and Shen Yanbai go from testing one another to working seamlessly together. When a palace coup erupts, he takes several arrows while shielding her, and she tends to him day and night.

Feelings quietly blossom amid the maelstrom of power politics. When the Empress Dowager makes things difficult for her, Lu Yan uses her forensic knowledge to expose the plot. With political enemies closing in on all sides, Shen Yanbai shields her from attacks both open and covert. From mutual wariness to deep devotion, they join forces to eliminate the remaining threats and implement new policies, standing side by side at a court rife with danger and intrigue.

When her modern ingenuity meets his profound political acumen, and the sword of the law clashes with the iron fist of a powerful minister, their love across time will ultimately become a legend of two people growing old hand in hand as they lay the foundations for a prosperous age.