The Abandoned Daughter Returns, and the Cold-Faced Power Broker Is Both Coy and Besotted

Revenge and comeuppance + doctor heroine's rise + household intrigue and putting scoundrels in their place + outranking them by seniority + killing with medicine + devoted couple, happy ending + decisive and ruthless

When he was young, her father was badly injured and saved by Yun Zhiyi's mother. He hid the fact that he already had a family and deceived her into becoming his concubine.

Yun Zhiyi's birth mother was imprisoned, and her little brother died tragically. Anyone could trample on them.

Her legitimate elder sister, Yun Jiaojiao, lived in luxury and was the most beautiful woman in the capital. The matriarch of the Wei family was ruthless and held the household reins.

They thought that if they ruined Yun Zhiyi's face, this thorn in their side would never rise again.

They had no idea that Yun Zhiyi understood how all things could counteract one another.

At a flower-viewing banquet, her elder sister was dressed in finery, yet a tiny pinch of powder flicked from Yun Zhiyi's fingers left her face covered in angry red bumps before everyone. She became a laughingstock throughout the capital.

Yun Zhiyi would drag them from their lofty perch, make them suspicious and fearful day and night, and watch them destroy all their glory with their own hands as they fell apart!

Her cousin, the heir apparent, was fickle and greedy for power. Enamored with her beauty, he condescendingly advised her to "know her place and become his concubine."

Yun Zhiyi had no interest in him whatsoever. Instead, she turned to the arms of Marquis Huo Jue of Dingbei.

They said the Marquis of Dingbei was powerful enough to sway the court, cold and defiant. In his youth, Yun Zhiyi had once risked her life to cure his poison.

From that moment on, she had been the one in his heart.

The man drew her into his arms, his icy gaze sweeping over her trembling enemies, murderous intent plain in his eyes.

When the Duke's household knelt to beg for mercy, Yun Zhiyi watched the once-arrogant matriarch break down as the poison took hold.

Everything in this world has consequences. The debts her enemies incurred in the past were debts she would eventually collect.