Lin Hongyi is a top-ranked quick-transmigration agent. After killing the scumbag emperor in her last world, who claimed to truly love her but planned to send her to the Cold Palace, she was dumped into this bizarre world obsessed with distinctions between legitimate and illegitimate children.
Starting out as the daughter of a fifth-rank official, Lin Hongyi assumed she’d have to play out a household-intrigue plot. But on the very first day, her cheap father tried to offer her as a concubine to his superior.
“Become a concubine? That’s right up my alley.” She agreed without hesitation.
But because she entered through the front gate, the principal wife accused her of “not knowing her place,” and she was sold off that very day.
Reborn, she dutifully went in through the side gate, only to be sold off again for wearing a bright red dress, on the grounds that she had “overstepped her station.”
The third time, she asked around for information and played dumb. Sold off.
The fourth time, she had the character “Hong” in her name. Sold off.
The fifth time...
When she was sold off for the twentieth time, she finally understood:
In this world ruled by the cult of legitimate birth, even breathing is a sin for an illegitimate daughter or a concubine.
If she couldn’t adapt to the rules, then she’d make the rules herself.
Later, the family that had once sold her off knelt in rows across the Golden Throne Hall.
She stroked the dragon throne and smiled. “Now it’s my turn to teach you what rules are.”
Reader’s guide:
1. The heroine is a gorgeous, unhinged beauty with her wits about her. She always gets revenge.
2. At first, all she wants is to get things over with quickly. She’s still getting used to the job.
3. The male lead appears much later. The heroine focuses on her career first.
