Is Everyone in My Husband’s Family Spineless? This Fierce Sister-in-Law Is Here to Set Their Bones Straight

[A short-tempered, max-level powerhouse of a sister-in-law × a sour, bookish softie at first, then a scheming chief councilor]

On her very first day in the Shen family, Chu Nanxing wants a divorce.

The whole family is made up of frail old folks and sickly children, all spineless pushovers who could be crushed with a pinch! They let greedy relatives bleed them dry, let the whole village walk all over them, and not one of them dares so much as fart.

Chu Nanxing sneers. “Fine, your spines are too soft? I'll straighten them out for you!”

The next day, a pair of shameless relatives come begging for a handout. Chu Nanxing hands her timid mother-in-law a fire poker. “Break his legs, or the whole family goes hungry tonight!” Weeping, her mother-in-law shuts her eyes and beats the man until he breaks bones.

On the third day, local thugs come to extort protection money. Chu Nanxing grabs her husband's collar and throws him out. “If you don't bite off a chunk of him, don't call yourself my man!” The mild-mannered scholar's eyes redden as he bites off half the thug's ear.

The whole village goes mad. The Shen family's eldest branch has been driven into a pack of rabid dogs by that new shrew!

Everyone hopes Chu Nanxing will be divorced, but instead they watch the Shen family rise to success at every turn. Her spineless in-laws become imperial merchants, her self-conscious younger brother-in-law becomes a senior official of the Supreme Court, and her timid younger sister-in-law becomes the greatest female abacus master in the land.

Her sour, bookish husband, whom she kicks out of bed every day, even dons the chief councilor's robes. Pinning her against the wall, he pouts with red eyes. “My lady, someone insulted me at court today. Your husband is so scared. Would you go beat him up for me?”