Reborn in the Embroidered Tent: A Legitimate Daughter’s Scheme

In her previous life, Shen Qingyuan, the legitimate daughter of the Marquis's household, trusted the wrong man. Her seemingly refined cousin Gu Yanze and her half-sister Shen Qinglian joined forces to frame her. Her family was falsely accused, their fortune seized, and she herself died miserably in a desolate palace courtyard. Only as she lay dying did she see their cruel, treacherous natures clearly. Filled with hatred, she is reborn at fifteen, when her family is still intact and the schemes have yet to surface. This time, Shen Qingyuan puts away her naivete and proceeds step by step, vowing to make her enemies pay for their crimes.

Along the way, she discovers that Xiao Jingyuan, the Marquis of Zhenbei, whom she barely noticed in her previous life, keeps appearing when she is in danger. When someone tries to poison her at a banquet, he intercepts the fatal cup; when she is ambushed outside the city, he kills the assassins for her; and when she is falsely accused of theft, he quietly produces evidence to clear her name. As they grow closer, Shen Qingyuan gradually lets down her guard, only to uncover an even more astonishing secret: she is not the Marquis's biological daughter, but the legitimate eldest daughter of the Duke of Yingguo, switched at birth and raised among commoners. Caught between revenge and the mystery of her birth, Shen Qingyuan, protected by Xiao Jingyuan, navigates the treacherous intrigues of the household and the court. In the end, she reclaims her identity, avenges herself, and finds a love they both choose wholeheartedly.