Qin Qiyue is an illegitimate daughter raised in the countryside. Her mother was driven to her death by her scoundrel father and his family, and Qin Qiyue endured years of hardship, all so she could return and take revenge.
She returns to the Yan household not to claim her family, nor to curry favor, but to collect what she is owed.
Her hypocritical scoundrel of a father, her vicious grandmother, her spineless grandfather, her spoiled younger siblings… She won’t spare a single one of those who killed her mother or now want to harm her.
Gentle and mild-mannered in public, she is ruthless and fierce in private. She takes on her grandmother, tears into her stepmother, makes her younger siblings suffer, and rips away her father’s false mask, bringing the whole wretched family to heel and turning their lives upside down.
Everyone fears her, except for her cool and dignified young uncle, Yan Shuo.
At their first meeting, he thought her a crude country girl who could barely read. At their next, he watched her plot one move after another, her edge on full display, and had already fallen for her.
Qin Qiyue addressed him properly: “Uncle.”
Yan Shuo gripped her wrist, his voice low and possessive. “Don’t call me uncle. Call me by my name.”
