After Taking the Noblewoman’s Place, the Alluring Beauty Went on a Rampage

[Scheming beauty | Impersonation | A battlefield of tangled relationships | Political intrigue and climbing the social ladder]

[The heroine has no true love, only the best possible choice]

Zhixue had a face so lovely it was as if Heaven itself had fed her beauty by the spoonful.

Her willow-leaf brows framed tender eyes, and her willowy figure was wrapped around a slender waist that could fit in one hand. A shallow dimple in her lower back was a bewitching lure. Anyone who saw her couldn't help but sigh, “She's so delicate and lovely, I can't help feeling for her.”

But no one knew that beneath this pitiful, fragile exterior lay an ambition to climb to the very top.

A ramshackle house in a mountain village couldn't keep her trapped. She wanted a life of luxury and unimaginable wealth.

Under the bandits' blades, she watched coldly as the real noblewoman took her last breath. Then she stripped off that embroidered gown, stole her identity, and entered Zhaojing. From then on, a country girl became the Duke's Manor's cousin.

When she first met Xie Yunzhan, she lowered her eyes shyly, her slender waist trembling as she stumbled perfectly into the secret weakness of the fastidious young heir. He was a refined gentleman, but when he caught her entangled with another man, he turned red-eyed and insisted on keeping her by his side. “A-Xue, behave yourself. No one else is allowed to touch what's mine.”

When she met Ji Huai'an again, her smile was radiant as she touched the chessboard of political intrigue with her fingertips, making the Chief Councilor, a man who despised social climbers, willingly offer her half his empire. “Stay by my side. All the glory and riches in this world, however much you want, I'll give you.”

An earnest military general turned against his own brother for her. A principled deputy minister broke the law for her, wagering his spotless reputation. Even her childhood sweetheart, a top scholar, had become a madman by the time they met again, no longer the elegant young scholar he once was.

Zhixue maneuvered through people's hearts, step by step, picking and choosing among those caught in her web of affection, all to find the one who could offer her the greatest prosperity.

But later, she became the only first-rank female official in the empire.