The Beloved Concubine’s Schemes

A deceptively delicate scheming beauty vs. a ruthless, fiercely protective marquis

[Household Intrigue + Concubine Rises to Power + Peerless Beauty + Both Leads Are Chaste + Sweet Romance and Devotion + Face-slapping the Scum]

Shen Yurou is reborn on the night her own mother sells her into the marquis's household as a bride to bring him good fortune.

In her previous life, she resisted in humiliation and failed to stay by the marquis's side. The next day, she was driven out of the marquis's household, only for her own mother to sell her to an abusive widower.

Because she was so fertile, he forced her to become pregnant again and again, then beat her until she miscarried time after time. He sucked the marrow from her bones and drained her of every last bit of value, until she died miserably in the cold of winter.

In this life, she will never return to that home that devours people without a trace.

If the marquis's household wants her to bring good fortune and bear a son, then she will obediently accept his favor and climb into the sickly marquis's bed. She will use his affection and influence to carve out a way to survive.

Everyone says Xie Qingheng is cold and cruel and hates women. Yet she alone seduces him into breaking his vow for the first time, and he loses control night after night. From then on, he protects her fiercely, allowing no one to touch, bully, or mistreat her.

She uses his favor to stay alive and his power to rise. She fights the principal wife and tramples the parasites in her birth family as she climbs, step by step, from the lowliest bride brought in to bring good fortune.

In the end, when the marquis's household has weathered its storms, the little maid who was once sold off becomes the powerful matriarch of the household.

Those who once sold her now kneel and beg for mercy. The entire marquis's household has to live at her whim.

In this life, she finally takes her fate back into her own hands.