Dream of the Red Chamber: Reborn, My Father Lin Ruhai Joins the Cabinet

[A Dream of Red Mansions-inspired + reborn + strong female lead + scheming]

In her previous life, Lin Daiyu wept herself to death. Only at the very end did she see through the so-called “love” of her maternal grandmother’s family: it was nothing but a grand scheme to seize the Lin family fortune and devour the household.

When she opened her eyes again, she had returned to the age of five. Her mother was still alive, her father Lin Ruhai was serving as an imperial salt inspector, and the Lin family had yet to fall into ruin.

Armed with memories of her previous life, she would no longer be a helpless orphan for others to manipulate.

Using “the innocent remarks of a child” as cover, she secretly guided her father to inspect the residue in his medicinal supplements and purge traitors from the inner household, gradually exposing the tangled web of profit linking the Jia family and the salt merchants.

The Jia family sent people to bring her to the capital, just as they had in her previous life, so she could once again live at the mercy of others?

Daiyu sat in the seat of honor and coolly refused. Then she helped her father rise from an isolated salt official with no support to a cabinet chief minister so powerful that even the emperor had to rely on him, leaving those who had bullied and humiliated her in her previous life with no grounds to look down on her.

In the Wenyuan Pavilion, Shen Yanci, an elegant and noble court official who always wore a jade pendant etched with a hidden design, cornered her beside a rosewood desk. With a gentle smile, his slender fingers traced the map of the Great Yue, then placed a black Go piece in her palm, drawing her into the astonishing game to seize the realm.