Everyone says Shen Weisi is a vicious, ruthless villainess from a marquis's household.
But no one knows that she never cared about her reputation in the first place.
She believes in neither family affection nor sincerity. Every gentle gesture and show of weakness is an act.
Her goals: seize power, control the family finances, and trample underfoot everyone who has bullied or schemed against her. Romance is just another piece on her chessboard, and she will never give anyone her heart.
Her mother died young. Her stepmother took control of the household, her half-sister stole her betrothal and good name, and her father favored his concubine-born children.
In her previous life, she was kind and yielding, but in the end she was forced to drink poison, and her body was dumped in a mass grave.
Reborn at the age of fifteen, she finds that her stepmother has already spread rumors about her, and everyone in the capital calls her spoiled and vicious.
Since the slander is already attached to her, she might as well play the villainess.
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Her half-sister pretends to bring her medicinal soup, hoping to ruin her voice. Shen Weisi knocks the bowl over on the spot, then turns the tables and exposes her sister's little trick in front of everyone. She stops pretending to be meek and confronts her publicly, cementing her reputation as a
