The Legitimate Daughter Returns to Humiliate Every Wretch in the Capital!

That gaze cut through the clamorous crowd and fixed straight on Shen Ning.

It held no warmth or emotion, only scrutiny: an oppressive stare from on high.

Shen Ning’s heart sank.

Something about this... wasn’t right.

In her previous life, she had been nothing more than a discarded pawn confined to the imperial harem until the day she died. She had never come into contact with anyone of this stature. Yet there was something hauntingly familiar about that gaze, as if she had been looked at this way countless times before, each time accompanied by bone-deep chill and despair.