Just after Yao Lingzhi bonded with the Prosperous Family and Heir-Bearing Ledger, her stepmother used a rural placement quota to force her to head north in her stepsister’s place and marry the cold-faced officer Ji Wanghuai, who was rumored to have no heirs. The substitute marriage dragged her into the Ji family’s branch-house heirlessness scandal and the second branch’s schemes to borrow an heir. Speaking sweetly, she first reclaimed five hundred yuan, her late mother’s jewelry box, and her household registration papers. Then she used the mission shop to change her fate and protect her family, slap down parasitic relatives, secure the marriage certificate and control of the family finances, and make her stepsister bow her head. She transformed a living widow’s living hell into a beloved family favorite’s triumphant new beginning.
