After Humiliating the Cold Regent Prince, a Powerful Minister

Chen Ying is the legitimate daughter of a duke's household, but her mother died young, leaving her to survive under her stepmother's roof.

In front of outsiders, her stepmother is a virtuous wife and loving mother, dressing Chen Ying like a princess.

But only the family knows the truth: when she goes out, Chen Ying is a princess. Once home, her stepmother strips off her pretty clothes and makes her change into a servant's uniform, eat servants' food, and do servants' work.

Her father dotes on his concubine and neglects his wife. He is cold toward Chen Ying and lets her stepmother torment her. Even the household servants order her around as they please.

Her half-sister is even more domineering and arrogant. Not only has she stolen Chen Ying's fiance, she also resents her for being the eldest daughter and is always looking for a chance to kill her.

When Chen Ying is sixteen, she falls ill and secretly asks an elderly nanny who cares for her to find a doctor.

The nanny has no money, so she can only hire a newly practicing physician.

He declares Chen Ying's condition severe and says she won't live more than seven days.

Desperate, Chen Ying decides to take revenge on her entire family.

First, she writes a secret letter accusing her father, who favors his concubine over his wife, of treason.

Then she locks her stepmother and a young servant together so the family will catch them in the act.

Next, she spreads the scandalous details of her half-sister's affair with her fiance.

After that, the servants, maids, steward, neighbors...

She spares no one who has ever bullied her.

Finally, she sets her sights on the all-powerful, arrogant Regent.

Once, she passed in front of him, and he did not even deign to look at her.

Chen Ying plots to abduct the Regent and locks him in a tiny woodshed, where she humiliates him thoroughly.

After having her way with him, she lies down before her mother's gravestone, ready to welcome the Black and White Impermanence.

She lies there for two whole days, perfectly unharmed.

Then she discovers that the quack doctor misdiagnosed her.

Misdiagnosed her.

As it turns out, she can live to a ripe old age.

By now, the Regent's wanted posters are plastered all over the city: Capture Chen Ying, legitimate daughter of the Duke's household, and receive a thousand taels of gold and a marquisate with ten thousand households!

Theme: Keep living with determination