When Shen Mingshu transmigrated into a book as the despised, vicious supporting female character, she was kneeling in the main hall of the marquis’s estate.
Her half-sister had fallen into the water, and her father was forcing her to apologize. Her grandmother called her cruel-hearted. Her younger brother took their half-sister’s side. Even her childhood betrothed frowned and advised her, “Just swallow your pride, and this will all be over.”
According to the original story, she would grow jealous and lose her mind, constantly framing the heroine, until she was eventually dumped, driven out of the marquis’s estate, and left to die in an unmarked mass grave.
Shen Mingshu thought it over.
Clear her name?
Why should she?
Right there, she took off the keys to the household and tossed the account books onto the table.
“Fine. From today on, whoever wants to run this household can do it.”
She stopped covering her father’s debts, buying expensive tonics for her grandmother, hiring tutors for her younger brother, and using her late mother’s dowry to help her half-sister keep up appearances.
In less than seven days, the whole estate had descended into chaos.
Only then did they realize that the marquis’s supposed splendor had been propped up all along by Shen Mingshu alone.
Later, her father regretted everything, her younger brother begged her through tears to come home, and her former fiancé asked with reddened eyes if they could start over.
Shen Mingshu only found it amusing.
“You were the ones who called me vicious.”
“And now you’re the ones who can’t live without me.”
“Too bad. I’m not turning back.”
She reclaimed her mother’s dowry and reopened the Gu Trading House. Starting with one shop, she built a trade network that spanned the land, while uncovering the truth behind her mother’s early death, an old military-pay scandal, and a conspiracy involving the imperial throne.
And the great villain who, in the original book, was supposed to be executed by the slow slicing death gradually came to a stop by her side.
Everyone was waiting for the vicious supporting character to redeem herself.
But Shen Mingshu refused.
Then I’ll flip the whole table.
