Bai Xi was lost at a young age, but was fortunate enough to be adopted by the Marquis of Loyalty's household. Sadly, the marquis died on the battlefield, bravely resisting the enemy.
The marquis's household had no heirs, but luckily Bai Xi's birth parents found her around that time and were willing to raise her. By imperial favor, they were allowed to administer the marquisate temporarily. When Bai Xi came of age, she would be made a county princess, and her husband would inherit the marquis title.
But when she came of age...
The marquis's residence had become someone else's home. Her courtyard belonged to the Li family. The shops and treasures her father had left her had become public property. Her title of county princess had been given to her younger sister. Her marriage, her health, her dignity, and her whole life had all become stepping stones for them to climb higher.
Only after she died did she learn how desperately her birth parents had hoped she would disappear. At last, everything belonged to them.
The overwhelming regret and pain kept her from crossing the Naihe Bridge.
And so, she was reborn.
To survive and take revenge, Bai Xi worked hard after being reborn to win the favor of the future empress. She became the eldest princess's adviser and sworn younger sister, earned the royal family's favor, and gradually tore away their hypocritical masks and broke free of the so-called bloodline prison. She became the first woman to inherit the marquis title and took back everything that belonged to her, one thing at a time.
She was delighted to finally live freely in the sunlight, just as she wanted. But one thing troubled her: why did the empress's son, that aloof beauty who treated her with such indifference, always gaze at her, his nominal aunt, with such dark, possessive longing?
P.S. The male and female leads are not related by blood in any way. Their relationship only develops after the nominal aunt-and-nephew relationship ends.
Theme: I decide my own life.
