The Legitimate Daughter Who Became a Substitute Bride Is Actually a Jianghu Overlord

Shen Qingmeng, the legitimate daughter of the Shen family, lost her mother at three and was abandoned in the countryside by her cruel father for fifteen years. Her stepmother mistreated her, her half-sister lorded it over her, and no one in the entire Minister's residence spared her a shred of consideration as the legitimate daughter. When an edict summoned her back to the capital, it was not to reunite with her family. She was being forced to take her spoiled half-sister's place in marriage to a frail young lord who was near death, and become a sacrificial pawn despised by all. The entire capital laughed at her, calling her coarse and lowly, an easy target whom anyone could push around. But no one knew that after eighteen years hidden away in the countryside, she had long since shed her meek exterior. She was Luo Sha Xuan Sha, the leader of a powerful underworld force, feared by all. With a turn of her hand, she could upend the world; with a lift of her fingers, she could decide who lived and died. She had returned to the capital not to curry favor with the powerful, but to protect her little brother, who had suffered terribly, settle every debt the Shen family owed, and clear her mother's name. As soon as she returned to the Shen residence, the servants used their status to bully her, while the matriarch put on a show of kindness. They schemed at every turn and made things difficult for her at every step, hoping to impose their rules and put her in her place. Faced with the intrigues of the inner household and the scornful stares of the world, Shen Qingmeng hid her edge and pretended to be meek, then turned their schemes against them, giving the wicked servants a taste of their own medicine and intimidating the matriarch. From then on, the image of the helpless, abandoned daughter was shattered for good. Whoever dared mistreat her or her brother would pay a hundredfold! Everyone thought she was trapped in the prison of the inner residence, never realizing that the entire game unfolding in the capital was already under her control, decided by a single thought!