Everyone in the capital knows that Shen Jingzhi, the eldest legitimate daughter of the Minister's household, is an idiot.
At twenty-two, she's still unmarried, with gold hairpins all over her head and manners as coarse as can be. She'll throw herself on the ground and throw a tantrum just to grab a pig's knuckle.
Her scumbag father thinks she's an embarrassment and would love to have her beaten to death.
Her vicious stepmother runs the household and wants to trade her for thirty thousand taels in betrothal gifts.
Her white-lotus half-sister has climbed over the bones of Shen Jingzhi's mother and is about to marry grandly into the Eastern Palace as Crown Princess.
Everyone thinks Shen Jingzhi is nothing but a heap of mud, fit only to be trampled underfoot.
Then the Minister's household teeters on the brink of bankruptcy, and her scumbag father and grandmother, red-eyed with rage, bring people to break into the principal wife's storeroom.
But when the doors swing open, the place is cleaner than a face, completely bare.
Her father flies into a rage. “You wicked girl! Where are the hundred thousand taels and deeds your maternal grandfather left you?!”
Shen Jingzhi blinks innocently. “I spent them.”
Her father nearly chokes on his blood. “That was a hundred thousand taels! What did you spend it on?!”
Shen Jingzhi counts on her fingers. “I tipped musicians, bought clothes, and gave all the rest to beggars in the west of the city because it was burning a hole in my pocket. What, Father, don't you know I'm an idiot who only cares about eating and drinking?”
Shen Jingzhi lives by one motto: Better to drive yourself mad than to go crazy and take everyone else down with you!
In this vast household, no one is getting out alive!
