A Concubine's Daughter Is Hard to Raise (Female-Dominated World)

A vengeful concubine-born daughter scheming to seize the family fortune x a mean, selfish widower of a legitimate father who torments his concubine-born daughter

Zhao Shunhua, son of Lingyang City's richest man, was strikingly beautiful, with a voluptuous figure.

Clever and quick-witted from a young age, he was ruthless in his methods, and half the family's businesses were thanks to him. When it came time to marry, he received a lavish dowry stretching for miles and married Guan Yuan, the daughter of the Marquis of Liuyong, becoming the envy of all.

But the one thorn in his heart was that bastard born to Guan Yuan's personal attendant before their marriage.

As a young girl, Guan Ren ran away from home and suffered every hardship imaginable. For ten years beyond the border, she survived by gritting her teeth and clinging to her hatred of her legitimate father. If she ever got the chance to return to the capital, she would pay him back tenfold!

Zhao Shunhua had been widowed for many years and found it hard to bear the loneliness of his boudoir. Now in his thirties, he happened to meet a kindred spirit through letters. They exchanged messages, sharing their hearts as a widower and a widow, but on the day they agreed to meet, he waited in the cold wind for half the night and no one came.

Cold in body and heart, he was just about to leave when his stepdaughter, whom he had once treated harshly, opened a window overhead and asked with an icy expression,