In her previous life, her stepsister stole her place in the college entrance exam, then had her silenced by poison. She died with bitter regrets.
Reborn, she tore up the letter demanding her surrender and set fire to the “Good Daughter” shrine. She wasn’t fighting just to survive. She wanted everyone who had trampled her to kneel and watch her rise to the top!
By day, she was the toughest firebrand at the textile mill. At night, she taught the female workers to read by lamplight. “Sign your own name. Earn your own freedom!”
The whole city called her unruly, but nothing could stop her from fighting her way to the top.
Shen Yan, the son of a high-ranking official, watched coldly for three years. Then, on the night she was surrounded and attacked, he finally appeared and took her hand in front of everyone. “I’ll protect you, openly and proudly.”
He gave up his secure government job for her, defied his family’s marriage orders, stood guard over her classroom late at night, and carried her home in the rain. “Keep moving forward. If the sky falls, it’ll hit me first.”
The world had once ground her into the dirt, but she forged the ashes into a crown with her own hands.
