The Whole Family Are Villains: The Chancellor’s Daughter Plays by Her Own Rules

Everyone in the capital knew that Su Yanru, the Chancellor’s daughter, had two things she wouldn’t tolerate: anyone insulting her gentle, peerlessly handsome father, and anyone delaying her mealtimes.

Today, when the Censor’s wife hosted a banquet and indirectly mocked Chancellor Su for failing to raise his daughter properly, Su Yanru rose with a sweet smile. Three sentences later, every noblewoman in the hall had turned pale.

Tomorrow, when the Minister of Personnel’s daughter tried to arrange a marriage, Su Yanru sold the jewelry she’d been given for rice and grain, then donated it to the city’s beggars in the name of the Minister’s household.

Everyone called her arrogant and overbearing, but Chancellor Su only reminded her gently, “Yanru, remember to come home for soup when you’re done playing.”

Then one night, while sneaking out in the dark with a brick to investigate rumors, she brained Xie Wujou, the handsome but unfamiliar commander of the Zhenfu Bureau, who was carrying out a secret order.

Looking at his handsome face on the ground, Su Yanru blinked, then immediately paid for a donkey cart. “Take him home for Father to see. He looks like he’d make a suitable guard.”

Jostled awake on the cart, Xie Wujou listened to the driver humming a tune and, for the first time in his life, wondered if he was still dreaming.