The Legitimate Daughter Is Reborn and Divorces Him, Leaving Her Ex-Husbands Across the Capital in a Panic

Su Yuan has been reborn.

In her previous life, the Gu family worked her like an ox for ten years. In the end, they threw her and her luggage out through a side gate, calling her "barren." She died in the snow in the twelfth lunar month, with no one to claim her body.

When she opened her eyes again, she was back on the third day after her wedding, with a well-thumbed copy of the Household and Marriage Code tucked in her arms.

This time, she neither cries, makes a fuss, nor begs. She opens the smallest bookshop in the West Market, writing divorce petitions for women trapped in miserable lives. Her husband keeps a mistress?

She opens the third volume of the Household and Marriage Code and cites it line by line to crush him.

Her in-laws swallow her dowry?

She audits the accounts in public and makes them cough up every last coin.

A child bride has been abused for seven years?

She takes the girl to court with a forged contract, exposes the fake seal, and turns around to send the wicked mother-in-law to prison.

The whole capital calls her crazy, until she publicly tears the skin off a prince consort: marriage fraud, poisoning, and political conspiracy. She slams down three pieces of evidence in the Golden Hall, leaving the entire court speechless.

Pei Xun, a judge at the Imperial Clan Court, initially takes her cases simply because it's his duty. Later, he shows up every day to mooch spicy pepper soup. "It's painfully spicy, but addictive."

Her former husband, Gu Yanqing, kneels in the snow and begs her to take him back. Su Yuan slaps a legal petition across his face. "The threshold at your Gu family home is too high. I don't want to trip over it."

This time, she believes in one thing alone: with the law in hand, every woman in a desperate situation can fight her way to a means of survival.

(The blurb is a mess, but the story is incredibly satisfying. Open it and watch Su Yuan wield legal statutes like a blade, striking with every blow.)