The Rules for Raising a Wicked Woman

◇ Dark chaebol ◇ Unrepentant villainess ◇ Multiple tangled romances ◇ The pinnacle of power and ambition ◇

“I stole someone else's life, yet became their perfect creation.”

In the thick fog over the Han River when she was thirteen, Shirley did two things:

watched her best friend get into a luxury car and abandon her,

and stole the friend's most precious possession, a white jade tiger carving.

Three days later, the Kang chaebol came to her door, claiming she was their long-lost heiress.

Shirley smiled and handed over a forged DNA report, the ticket to a new life she'd secured with a hospital director's scandal and threats made at thirteen.

Welcome to Seongyeong Academy, the hunting ground of Korea's top chaebol families.

Here, she will learn:

How to carve up wealth and human nature with elegant knives and forks

How to keep three dangerous relationships in her grasp:

➤ Kim Ji-yu: An illegitimate-son ally who recognizes a kindred spirit in the gutter. “We're the same kind of people, rotten to the core.”

➤ Kwon Min-hyeok: The violent cage of a mad heir to a military family. “Hate me. Hate me so much you never let go, even when you die.”

➤ Lee Seong-jun: The cold chessboard of a perfect politician. “Marriage is a contract, and falling in love is a loophole. Will you use it?”

From an abandoned orphanage child, to a chaebol's blade, to the queen of the Blue House.

Fed privilege layer by layer, Shirley's ambition grows into a monster that devours everything.

“Then I'll step on everyone's shoulders and take the highest seat.”

“And falling from it? That's just another way to write a legend.”