Reborn to Storm the Marquis’s Estate: The True Heiress Takes Down the Whole Family!

[Real and fake heiresses + groveling for forgiveness + no forgiveness + revenge on the villains] Pei Zhixuan was the Marquis’s true legitimate daughter. When she was born, her father joined forces with his mistress to kill her mother, then used the mistress’s daughter to replace her. The mistress also took her mother’s place as the new Marchioness. Knowing nothing of this, Pei Zhixuan ended up in the countryside, where she labored like an ox for fifteen years. When her grandmother found her and brought her back to the marquis’s residence, she thought she would finally find a loving family. The mistress’s daughter wanted to marry into the imperial family. Using the excuse that “Pei Zhixuan is too crude to find a good husband,” she forced her fiancé, the young general He Chengzhou, on her. He Chengzhou loved the mistress’s daughter and hated Pei Zhixuan. He married her, then left her to live like a widow for four years, using her as cover for his secret meetings with his beloved. At twenty, Pei Zhixuan accidentally learned the truth about her father, his mistress, and the mistress’s daughter. Furious, she told her biological elder brother what had happened. But the brother she thought she could rely on feared she would reveal the truth and jeopardize his inheritance of the marquis’s title and luxurious life. He callously pushed her into a lake. Pei Zhixuan drowned. Reborn, she no longer hoped for family or love. She would make them pay in blood. She deliberately got close to Princess Huayang, using the princess’s influence to manipulate her profit-hungry grandmother and father and kill every one of her enemies. Unexpectedly, she became entangled with the fifth prince, Xiao Jingyuan. Well, this was an opportunity too. She might as well use what she knew from her previous life to help him win the succession struggle. With credit for helping him claim the throne, she could aim to become the first female marquis. Wouldn’t that be wonderful? They reached an agreement and worked together happily. But after Xiao Jingyuan ascended the throne, he brought her the imperial seal of the empress and held it out to her. “Ah Xuan, let me make you empress. What do you say?” But Pei Zhixuan, who had always been sensible and obedient, shook her head. “No.”