It Takes a Scoundrel to Tame a Villain: The Mad Heiress’s Rise to Power

[Transmigrate · Feel-good power fantasy · Female official · Lighthearted · System · Face-slapping · Political intrigue · No romance]

Transmigrated into the body of a discarded general's daughter with only a short time left to live, Pei Xixi faces two choices: accept her fate, marry an old geezer, and wait to die, or turn all the rules of the capital upside down!

After binding with a rebellious System, Pei Xixi decisively chooses to go completely mad on the spot. As long as I lie flat and play the victim fast enough, no one can guilt-trip me!

She's being forced into a bridal sedan in three days?

She turns around and wreaks havoc at the betrothal banquet, angers the Six Ministries' deputy ministers so badly they might as well be headed for their coffins, then clings to the Empress Dowager's golden thigh and becomes the only female judicial clerk in the Dali Temple of the Great Yong Dynasty!

The civil officials pride themselves on a gentleman's decorum, but she refuses to play fair:

When censors impeach her for a woman usurping a man's role, she spends the night turning corrupt officials' dirty ledgers into catchy rhymes, spreading them through all thirty-six wards of Shengjing.

When the Imperial Medical Bureau dares to fob the royal family off with moldy fake medicine, she wheels a giant iron pot right into the Golden Throne Hall and brews medicine on the spot, making the court's high-ranking officials gag from the stench!

She only meant to earn enough points by making people lose their cool to stay alive. Who knew confiscating property and splitting the spoils would be so satisfying? Before long, she'd charged her way from a low-ranking temp job to a powerful sixth-rank judicial commissioner!

The capital's nobles live in fear, lining up at her Forget-Worry Tea House to pay for "keep-quiet coupons."

The deputy censor-in-chief sobs as he hands over ten thousand taels in hush money. "Lord Pei, please stop investigating. If you dig any deeper, I'll have nothing left to wear!"

Pei Xixi splashes a bowl of tea over the banknotes, then flashes the Empress Dowager's gold-inked warrant:

"No money for you, just one life to take! Assistant Minister Xie, come with me and blow up his Ever-Normal Granary!"

From useless concubine-born daughter to red-robed King of Hell, watch her turn serious political intrigue into a hilarious farce by going completely mad!