Stealing Fates? The Real Heiress Is Reborn and Marries a Powerful Official from the Start

Chi Guanxue, the legitimate daughter of a marquis’s household who was brutally killed and turned into a human swine in her previous life, is reborn on the eve of her coming-of-age ceremony with thirty years of memories.

She won’t vie for favor, fame, or a man.

What she will fight for is the chance to expose to the world, with her own hands, a vast web of fabricated birth destinies, imperial examination fraud, and embezzled military funds.

She cuts ties with her family, opens shops and builds a business, then establishes an intelligence network called the Listening Wind Tower.

She wields account books like blades and information advantages like shields, carving out a path to survival between the mire of the inner residence and the iron curtain of the imperial court.

But every move she makes brings her closer to Lu Jiuyuan, the regent who commands a powerful army and bears a prophecy that he will bring ruin to the country.

“I use her intelligence, and she borrows my influence. Beyond that, I have done nothing to deceive Your Majesty,” he said during an audience in a side hall.

Yet there was the apricot blossom branch he snapped off for her beneath the corridor of that abandoned temple, the ointment for chilblains he sent to the south of the city late one night, and the sandalwood prayer beads she tied to a colored-glass lantern…

Bing Fire is fierce; Xin Metal is pure and cool.

Fate-reading says that only she can temper the violence that consumes him.

But the emperor’s blade of suspicion is already at her throat, the crown prince’s private army is on the move, and the great dikes south of the Yangtze are about to collapse…

In this life, she will turn this mirror over with her own hands.

On the other side of the mirror is him.