The Marquis's Legitimate Daughter: She Reclaims the Household with Clan Rules

[Court intrigue and household drama + reborn + strong heroine + face-slapping + cutting family ties and never looking back]

In her previous life, Shen Heng, the legitimate daughter of a marquis’s family, was poisoned by her stepmother, framed by her half-sister, and ignored by her father. She died horribly on the night her books were burned. Only as she lay dying did she hear her father say, “What does a legitimate daughter know about managing the household?”

When she opened her eyes again, she was back on the night her books were burned.

This time, she wouldn’t kneel, cry, or beg for affection.

When her stepmother accused her of stealing her birth mother’s dowry, she laid out the clan rules before everyone: If a legitimate daughter loses her dowry, who bears the charge of disrespect? When her half-sister pretended to fall ill and faint, Shen Heng took her pulse with three fingers and caught the scent of bitter almonds in her sleeve. One written explanation of medicine exposed the fake death. When her father demanded an apology, she handed him the household accounts: a deficit of three thousand taels over three years. She used her own property to cover it, and in return she gained not forgiveness but control of the household.

She didn’t rely on “knowing the future after being reborn.” She mastered the three most powerful skills in a marquis’s household: accounting, medicine, and clan rules.

Her stepmother was stripped of power, and her half-sister’s carefully crafted persona crumbled. Shen Heng took her birth mother’s dowry and moved to the west side of the city, where she opened a clinic and made her own way. She also signed an equal contract with Xiao Heng, the heir who had watched coldly from the sidelines.

Everyone in the Shen family knelt and begged her to come back. She only said, “I can let go of my hatred, but I will never turn back.”