You Stole My 200,000-Tale Dowry? The Outlaw Laughs Himself Silly

[Strong Female Lead + Transmigration + Civil Service Exams and Imperial Examinations + Everyone Is Evil + No Forgiveness + Cathartic Revenge + A Woman Chancellor Rules the Realm]

Hell mode from the start! She transmigrates into the body of the Marquis's legitimate second daughter, locked in a woodshed for ten whole years. Her birth mother was poisoned to death by her stepmother, and her dowry of two hundred thousand taels was stolen down to the last coin!

Her own father thinks she's a jinx and wants to have her bound and sent to marry a sixty-five-year-old, rotting-marred marquis to bring him good luck, all while silencing her?

The moment she steps through the main gate on her return, her own father draws his sword and flings it at her face. "You shameless wretch! Kill yourself and atone!"

Jiang Qingyu, a modern double doctorate in law, literature, and history, sneers on the spot:

Want me dead? Ask the laws of Great Qian if they'll allow it!

A wicked servant reaches out to search her and tear off her clothes?

She jabs a stick through his brow. "Household servants who assault their master may be executed without trial. If I kill you, the authorities will praise me for knowing the law!"

Her scum of a father offers her birth mother moldy, rotten fruit in the ancestral hall?

She publicly recites the laws on ritual offerings: "Disrespecting one's ancestors is punishable by eighty strokes! Believe me, I'll report you to the Censorate tomorrow and have your official hat knocked right off your head!"

The Shen family thinks they can get rid of her by locking the gates?

She cuts ties with them, establishes her own household as a woman, reclaims the original records for her birth mother's dowry of two hundred thousand taels, then heads straight for the imperial examination hall!

The literary world in this realm is in decline, and the post of female official has been vacant for a hundred years?

She unleashes five thousand years of Chinese poetry, with Tang poems and Song lyrics striking from an entirely higher plane.

Before long, her name is announced at the Golden Throne Hall. A female top scorer emerges from nowhere, her vermilion official robes stirring the whole realm!