The Legitimate Daughter Returns: This Life, I'll Serve the Young Lord, Not the King

Ancient romance + rebirth and revenge + household intrigue + punishing scoundrels and face-slapping + comeback + powerful couple

In her previous life, Shen Yuwei, the legitimate daughter of the General’s Manor of Zhenguo, devoted her family’s strength to supporting the Third Prince, Zhao Heng, helping him rise from an obscure prince to the throne. In return, her entire family was condemned to death. Her father fell in battle and was falsely accused of treason. Her elder brother was imprisoned and tortured. She was stripped of her position as empress and locked away in the Cold Palace, where she watched her cousin Shen Linglong wear her wedding dress and gleefully claim the throne she had paved with her own blood.

A cup of poison ended her life. Reborn with boundless hatred, Shen Yuwei returns to the age of sixteen, before the royal hunt and before any of those tragedies have come to pass.

This time, she puts away her naivete and hides her love. With a blade in one hand, she protects her family; with the other, she plots to control the fate of the realm. A scoundrel? Tear him apart! A fake innocent? Crush her! Anyone who so much as lays a finger on the General’s Manor will have to answer to Shen Yuwei’s blade!

But on the road to revenge, one man keeps “pursuing” her…

The heir to Prince Jing’an, Xie Yanci, is said to be gentle as jade and indifferent to worldly affairs. Yet he always appears when she is at her most vulnerable, his eyes hiding depths she cannot understand.

“Miss Shen, this poisonous herb is exactly the same as the one in your cousin’s room.”

“Miss Shen, I ‘happened to find’ the secret letter proving the Third Prince is colluding with a foreign enemy.”

Shen Yuwei points her blade at him. “Xie Yanci, what exactly are you after?”

Xie Yanci chuckles, brushing a stray lock from her temple. His tone is lazy but certain. “I want to be your ally, Miss Shen, and, while I’m at it… the son-in-law of the General’s Manor.”

She thinks she has been reborn for revenge, never knowing that someone has been waiting for her at a turning point in fate. This time, he will protect her and give her a peaceful life, staying by her side as they take in all the blossoms of Chang’an.