Reborn as the Legitimate Daughter, I Have Space and No Mercy

On a snowy night, as they shoved her into a dry well, she heard her stepmother's cold laugh and her half-sister's jeers.

As she lay dying, she saw her father close her eyes without a trace of emotion, as if the dead girl were not his daughter but merely an irritating ant.

When she opened her eyes again, she had returned to age fifteen. The broken engagement and humiliation, her stepmother's control of the household, her half-sister's bullying: everything had started over.

But this time, she had a ring on her finger.

A drop of blood claimed it, and a hidden space opened. Its spirit spring could detoxify and heal, and its land could grow medicinal herbs at astonishing speed. She exposed the evidence of her stepmother's embezzlement, turned her half-sister's schemes back on her, and moved into the West Wing to establish her own household, leaving everyone stunned.

She saved a man in distress, only to discover that he was a wolf lying in wait.

“Let's work together. Help me take revenge, and I'll help you reclaim your throne.”

“Deal.”

From then on, she became Miss Shen of the capital. She traded medicinal herbs for favors, weaving those favors into a web. The Marchioness of Pingnan became her backer, the Grand Secretary became her ally, and even the emperor personally bestowed on her the title of Commandery Princess Hui'an.

But a hollow title was never what she wanted.

She trampled every enemy beneath her feet, one by one. Yet when she stood before the grave of her biological father, Shen Huaijin, to clear his name, she realized that the true enemy had never been limited to the few women in the inner household.

With the new emperor still a child, she entered the court as a woman, founded an academy for women, established a system of female officials, and built a network of spirit springs to save lives and help the people.

Some called her an unnatural woman who dared to rule. She simply smiled. “My blade never points at those who insult me.”

Someone asked her, “You're a woman. Why go this far?”

She gazed into the distance and softly replied, “So that no one else in this world has to become a second me.”