Everyone in the capital knows that Su Wanqing, the legitimate daughter of the Prime Minister's residence, is a complete fool and good-for-nothing.
She speaks incoherently, acts like a lunatic, and knows nothing about music, chess, calligraphy, or painting.
Her stepmother covets the generous dowry left by her birth mother, while her half-sister Su Qingrou puts on the guise of a gentle, innocent girl and schemes against her at every turn.
Her fiance, the Third Prince, thinks her stupid and clumsy. He comes to break off their engagement in public, making his humiliation of her plain for all to see.
Everyone treats Su Wanqing as a pawn they can manipulate and sacrifice at will.
But no one knows that her madness and stupidity are all an act!
After transmigrating into a book, she remembers the original heroine's tragic ending all too clearly. To stay alive, she has played the fool and lain low for years.
Her half-sister wants to steal her engagement? She exposes the fake innocent's scheme in public, humiliating her on the spot.
Her stepmother wants to swallow up her dowry? She lays her traps step by step and reclaims every last item from the storeroom.
The prince breaks off their engagement and humiliates her? She claps with delight, wishing they could be rid of each other immediately.
She only wants to quietly enjoy the show and stay alive, but who would have thought that Xie Wuyuan, the powerful, cold-blooded, abstinent Regent, would see through her disguise at a glance?
From then on, the great figures of the court and the powerful aristocratic clans are all led around by the nose by her.
Those who once mocked her are now filled with regret, lining up on their knees to beg her forgiveness.
Su Wanqing spreads her hands and smiles bitterly. "I only wanted to quietly be a fool. How did all these bigwigs end up kneeling and losing their minds?"
