In her previous life, Lin Shu thought herself especially lucky: she was the legitimate daughter of a marquis’s household and had a good husband. But a great fire just before her death made her see everything clearly. She carries her resentment into a new life, but her outlook has changed. She is more certain than ever that good deeds are rewarded and evil deeds punished. It’s not that retribution never comes, only that the time hasn’t come yet! What does it matter who is good or evil? She protects her birth mother, takes on her father’s concubines, keeps her strategies close, and proceeds step by step, with everything neatly in hand. But you, young master, the notorious wastrel of the capital, could you please keep your distance from me...?