Rewriting My Cannon-Fodder Fate: Rising to the Top Behind the Vermilion Walls

[The heroine is no saint, and is not a good person by any conventional definition] Lin Xiaoman's life began with farewells and was marked by loss. At twelve, a sudden mutiny destroyed her home. Her little brother died in the chaos of war, her father passed away after a long illness, and her mother took her own life rather than face defeat. The person she loved was trampled beneath the cavalry, buried in the earth by the city walls. With her family gone and nowhere to turn, she entered the imperial palace as a maid, hoping only to stay alive and reach old age in peace. But fate had other plans. One upheaval followed another, and she repeatedly found a way to survive in the direst circumstances. The girl who had once been left destitute would eventually break free of her predicament and forge a future unlike any other.