The Legitimate Bai Daughter’s Comeback

When Bai Lian opened her eyes, she had transmigrated into the body of a notorious, spoiled legitimate daughter.

Her father was a powerful new minister who had risen from humble beginnings, climbing from seventh-rank county magistrate to second-rank minister in ten years, with a spotless reputation throughout the court.

Her illegitimate elder half-brother, born to her father's concubine, had come top in all three imperial examinations and was now a Hanlin Academy compiler, personally appointed by the emperor, bringing glory to the family.

Her illegitimate half-sister by the same father was the capital's paragon of refinement, unmatched in both music and painting. Even princesses invited her to tea and poetry gatherings.

And her betrothed, chosen for her in childhood, was the heir of the Duke of Zhenguo. At fifteen, he had earned the emperor's praise with his Ten Strategies for Managing the River, making him a prodigy of the age...

As for Bai Lian herself...

She was a useless fool, stupid as a pig, who possessed only the title of legitimate daughter in the Minister's household. After riding her horse wildly through the street and trampling the emperor's tribute rice, she was disowned by her furious father and struck from the family register. A document sent her to the ancestral estate, where miasma ran rampant, supposedly to “cultivate her character.”

Faced with a leaky thatched hut, three mu of poor farmland, and a ruling by the clan elders that “a legitimate daughter who has disgraced herself shall be treated as a tenant farmer,”

Bai Lian leisurely rolled up her mud-stained sleeves and weighed the rusty hoe in her hand.

“Fine. I'll farm a little, read Lessons for Women, and behave myself like an ordinary person.”

The hidden guards spying on her, the relatives forced to keep watch, and the enemies waiting to kick her while she was down all stared in collective shock.

...You call that ordinary?