Empress Bai, who held absolute power in the Great Chu dynasty, spent half her life toiling, bearing the burden of the imperial harem, state affairs, the treasury, and the wars.
All under heaven praised her: “Great Chu flourishes thanks to Empress Bai.”
But overwork finally killed her. She collapsed and died on the road back to the capital.
When she opened her eyes again, she had become Xie Ciyuan, the biological daughter of Shanghai’s richest family, the Xies, in the Republican era.
Switched at the age of three, she endured sixteen years of abuse in the countryside.
At last, her biological parents found her and brought her home, only for the fake heiress to frame her with a cup of hot water on the very day she arrived.
Her four brothers cut off the medicine keeping her alive and locked her in a storage room, where she starved to death.
As she hovered on the brink of death, Bai Qingyan’s soul took over her body.
“What a fine case of a magpie occupying another bird’s nest. What a fine family, unable to tell the child they raised from their own flesh and blood.
In front of me, you’re all made of paper.”
[Female Supporting Character Awakening System successfully bound.
Earn face-slapping points through face-slapping and exchange them for character-editing cards, which let you change five characters in the plot.]
In her previous life, she managed the imperial harem and fought the concubines. In this life, she takes on the fake heiress and battles her brothers.
In Shanghai, where gold lies everywhere, she starts from scratch and builds her empire in real estate, shipping, and jewelry.
Step by step, she shatters the Xie family’s arrogance and climbs to the top as the wealthiest person in Shanghai, trampling the fake heiress’s schemes along the way.
But why does the man she casually rescued, Lu Chenyu, leader of the Black Shark Gang in the French Concession, keep turning up everywhere?
“You saved my life. For the rest of my life, I’ll belong to no one but you.”
