Tenderness in Your Eyes

For twelve bitter years, the cold nights at the Earl of Zhenyuan's estate were all she knew. Born in a snowstorm, she grew up in the mud.

Her stepmother schemed to seize power, slandered her mother's virtue, and abandoned her as an infant in a freezing stable, leaving her to fend for herself.

Her biological father was cold and heartless, treating mother and daughter as if they didn't exist. The whole family looked down on them, bullied them, and trampled them underfoot.

A deadly drugging plot finally broke her last reserves of patience.

In this life, she would no longer cling to survival.

First, she would free her mother, who had suffered injustice for half her life, from a loveless marriage. She would divorce her faithless husband in public and clear her mother's name.

Then, by imperial decree, she would investigate a shocking forbidden-drug case that had shaken the entire nation, exposing a monstrous conspiracy between the imperial clan and the consort's family.

The Crown Prince was incompetent, Prince Qin lay low, and Prince Duan hid his sinister ambitions. The princes vied for the throne as undercurrents surged through the court.

Once the easily bullied illegitimate daughter of the Earl of Zhenyuan's household, she now stepped into the game, seizing the board and controlling the pieces.

She would tear apart conspiracies, settle old scores, check the power of the throne, and plunge all of Eastern Xia into the storm of the succession struggle.

She would neither pine for love nor attach herself to the powerful. With her own brilliance, she would turn the tables against all odds,

forcing everyone who had tormented her and her mother to pay their blood debts and kneel at her feet.