The Poisonous Xiyue

At seven years old, Yun Qiyue tested medicine at a temple to save the Empress Dowager. After the Empress Dowager recovered, Yun Qiyue’s father, a county magistrate, was promoted to the capital to serve as Minister of Revenue.

Her eldest sister, Yun Shu, was granted a marriage to the crown prince as his principal consort, while her eldest brother, Yun Yi, married the legitimate daughter of the Duke of Jin. From then on, the Yun family rose from a minor local official’s household to a powerful family in the capital.

But seven-year-old Yun Qiyue was left behind by her parents to live with her second uncle in their hometown for ten whole years, suffering every hardship imaginable.

When she learned that eight years earlier her mother had traveled thirty li to bring her cousin Su Wanrou home, doting on her like a precious jewel while abandoning her own daughter, Yun Qiyue killed her second uncle when he tried to assault her, silenced her second aunt, and framed the village bully Li Ergou.

At last, someone from the capital came to take her back.

Yun Qiyue arranged a great fire to erase every trace of the old house, then embarked on her path of revenge...