When Shi Buyu was born, strange signs filled the skies, and people called her a bringer of calamity. At three, she was said to have “died young,” but in truth, a wise master took her away to live in seclusion for fifteen years.
Fifteen years later, she returns at her master's command, determined only to settle the score with the fate she'd been given.
The capital has long forgotten the calamity girl. They know only that the Shi family has gained another “poor country cousin.”
Her stepmother looks down on her, her sisters make things difficult for her, and everyone wants to trample her underfoot.
Shi Buyu smiles. In her fifteen years of seclusion, she studied the art of strategy, the Eight Trigrams, astrology, and fortune-telling.
Think you can outsmart her?
In no time, she has her stepmother under control, face-slaps her sisters, and wins the favor of the capital's powerful families.
But the Regent, whose power towers over the court and who is decisive and ruthless, comes to her in person and stares into her eyes.
“Who are you, really? Why does your destiny... match that of the calamity girl who supposedly ‘died’?”
Okay 🙂
Please tell me, what was her identity before time travel? 🧐