Shen Yuan has transmigrated.
She’s now a legitimate daughter who spent sixteen years in a daze, never getting enough to eat or warm clothes to wear, and constantly trampled underfoot by her stepmother and half-sister. And now she has a “wonderful opportunity” waiting for her: taking her half-sister’s place and marrying the Ninth Prince, who is rumored to have a crippled leg and a strange temper.
Her half-sister weeps prettily, while her stepmother smiles with hidden meaning.
Shen Yuan smiles too. They have no idea that from the moment she woke up after falling into the water, this household’s world was about to turn upside down.
She has a pocket dimension, supplies, and the mind of a formidable woman from her previous life. The Shen family’s private vault, secret vault, and hidden stash: she empties them all. Evidence that her stepmother committed murder, account books exposing her father’s embezzlement: she gets her hands on it all. Her maternal grandmother and grandfather from the Gu family, two uncles, two aunts by marriage, two male cousins, and two female cousins: they all show up.
Just as everyone thinks she’s nothing but a cast-off, the officials of the Court of Judicial Review surround the Shen residence.
Shen Yuan thinks she can finally get away unscathed. But Xiao Yan, the Ninth Prince with the crippled leg, blocks her way in his wheelchair. He hasn’t come to propose. He wants the bottle of medicine from her.
“If you can heal my leg, I’ll give you everything you want.”
Shen Yuan narrows her eyes. Hold on, why does that sound like something a certain Crown Prince said too?
The Crown Prince: “The imperial edict names the Shen family’s legitimate daughter.”
The Ninth Prince: “It’s just a partnership. Don’t read into it.”
Shen Yuan looks at the two men and suddenly smiles.
Sorry, but in this life, she belongs to no one. Still, she can certainly take her time choosing between these two “partnership offers.”
