The Adopted Son-in-Law

When Fu Zhenge was eight, she nearly hacked Fu Zhong’s second wife to death with a kitchen cleaver, so Fu Zhong sent her back to the family home in Ye City. For the next eleven years, the Fu family never once sent word to ask after her. Then an imperial decree summoned Fu Zhenge back from Ye City. Though she was deeply unwilling, she had no choice but to trade her military uniform for bridal robes and enter Shengjing, a den of wealth and power. But as she navigated its intrigues, she not only found herself with a live-in husband, but also discovered that many things were not as simple as she had thought.

For starters, her stepmother seems to have been on good terms with her mother.