Xie Lan was sent to be raised at a Taoist temple on Mount Sanqing as soon as she was born, supposedly because she would bring misfortune to her family.
For more than a decade, her family ignored her. But when she was about to turn fifteen, the Xie family brought her home, expecting her to repay their kindness.
They assumed she was an uneducated country girl from the mountains who would be easy to manipulate. They never imagined she knew the arcane arts and was a famous immortal maiden!
Her biased grandmother tries to force her to make money for the Xie family. Xie Lan makes a quick calculation. “Grandmother, you’re destined to have no money. You must donate your entire coffin fund, or you’ll lose the use of your hands and feet.”
Her white-lotus stepsister wants to use her to marry into a powerful family. Xie Lan says, “Sister, you have the fate of a sparrow. To break it, you must marry an old man as his concubine.”
Her hypocritical stepmother wants to marry her off to the foolish son of a princess. Xie Lan says, “Judging by your face, you’ll have to marry again.” Then she turns the tables and sends her stepmother to become the princess’s daughter-in-law.
Her cold and incompetent father plans to offer her to the powerful in exchange for promotion and wealth.
Xie Lan says, “Father, the road to office is dangerous. Go back to your hometown and become a grave keeper. That’s the only way to save your life.”
As for her calculating second and third uncles, Xie Lan sells them off to a male brothel, where they can live happily with all the handsome young men.
With winter here, the Xie family is finished.
Xie Lan, however, is still not satisfied. She grips her fingers and says, “Let me calculate which family I should take down next.”
The powerful families of the capital tremble in fear before Xie Lan’s brutal arcane arts.
Xiao Jin, who has always stayed by Xie Lan’s side, suddenly speaks up. “Junior sister, exposing secrets everywhere must be exhausting. Which family’s secrets do you want to dig up next? I’ll help you.”
Xie Lan looks utterly shocked.
The stingy, useless, cowardly Young Master Xiao who had always stayed by her side is actually her formidable senior brother, who is ruthless and knows how to play the pig to eat the tiger?
This book is actually quite good, except for some parts that dragged on for several chapters before ending. What's most unbearable is that the story becomes uninteresting the moment the male lead appears! Let me clarify that I'm not a fan of a story without a romantic pairing, but in this book, everyone else gets the short end of the stick when the female lead confronts them, but every time the…
Enjoying the melons every day is delicious, keep it up!
Great, I have another book to read!
After reading the beginning, it's almost identical to Nian Xiaohua's "The Crown Princess is Destined to Be Cursed." It involves encountering an amnesiac ghost on the way home from a Taoist temple, helping a guard with fortune-telling, the second wife losing silver notes, and the villain shopping for clothes in town. Isn't this plagiarism?
Is the Sun family just going to leave it at that? Will things just continue as before?