Only as she lay dying did Fu Ying realize that she was not the biological daughter of the Marquis of Boyang.
At last, everything made sense:
Why her parents had always despised her, though she was their legitimate daughter and had been clever and adorable since childhood;
Why her parents pressured her to give up the fiancé she had carefully chosen, all because her cousin, a princess, said she liked him;
Why, after she had the good fortune to survive a palace coup, her legitimate mother personally fed her poison...
It was all because the Marquis of Boyang's biological daughter, now a princess, saw Fu Ying as a thorn in her side!
Reborn, Fu Ying returns to the age of fourteen.
This time, she will have her revenge!
But everyone who wronged her in her previous life has a noble status, while she has neither power nor influence.
So what? She knows the future emperor will be Prince Ming, and she knows how undisguised his admiration was when he first saw her.
So she sets out to win Prince Ming's favor and get a taste of power.
The trouble is, at fourteen, she has hardly any connection to him.
Just as Fu Ying is at her wit's end, her elder brother returns home after ten years away on military campaigns.
She remembers that in her previous life, he became Prince Ming's most trusted minister.
So she uses every scheme she can think of to please him, sewing clothes and cooking for him by hand... She only hopes he'll remember her kindness and introduce her to Prince Ming.
She has no idea she's feeding herself to a tiger. Her elder brother has long since decided she belongs to him.
After a series of schemes, Prince Ming personally comes to ask for Fu Ying's hand in marriage.
That night, Fu Ying is happily planning how to take revenge on those who ruined her previous life when her elder brother bursts in, his presence icy and the corners of his eyes red. His voice is like ice: "A Ying, you want power, don't you? Then I'll give you what you want."
A few days later, she hears the news that her elder brother has seized the throne.
Later, her elder brother becomes emperor and makes Fu Ying his empress.
On their wedding night, he pulls her onto his lap, his gaze dark and deep. "I can give you the power you want too, A Ying. But you can only be mine."
Both leads are chaste, and they are not related by blood. Their feelings develop only after they learn the truth about their identities.
An important female supporting character transmigrates into a book, so this is a historical transmigration story.
Theme: Live as yourself without worrying about what society thinks.
