Reborn as a Pitiful Young Noblewoman After Winning the Palace Struggle

In her previous life, Nan Qing rose from a lowly palace maid to the highest position a woman could hold, Empress Dowager. Her whole life was defined by one word: fighting. She fought palace servants, imperial consorts, and emperors... The struggle exhausted her and left her unable to relax for even a moment. At last, her son ascended the throne. She finally let out a breath, but her old illness returned, and she suddenly fainted. When she opened her eyes again, she had become the illegitimate daughter recently brought back to the Zhuang family estate. Her grandmother strictly observed the rules, her father was cold and heartless, her stepmother was kind-faced but cruel-hearted, and her concubine-born sisters all had their own agendas. She had never even met most of her siblings. She alone was adrift and utterly on her own. Nan Qing thought that having been reborn, with a second life so hard-won, she shouldn't spend it caught up in endless struggles. So she tried to accept what came and let things go. Then she became a pawn in the fight between her legitimate and concubine-born sisters. She was about to be driven out of the Marquis's residence and left to fend for herself. Her stepmother was also watching her like a hawk, waiting to have her sold off the moment she stepped outside, determined to condemn her to a life of misery as a commoner and ease her own hatred. Nan Qing sighed. Well, it seemed she wouldn't get to enjoy a peaceful life after all. Content warnings: The heroine is calculating and good at putting on an act. Everything she has, she gets through her own schemes, and they rarely backfire. There is romance, with multiple one-sided crushes, but it's one-on-one. Theme: Dare to fight against fate