The Concubine Comes Knocking? The Top Scholar's Legitimate Daughter Kicks the Whole Family Out

[Face-slapping and putting scumbags in their place] [Two generations chasing their loves through the fire] [Fake and real heiresses] [Both leads are devoted only to each other] My father wanted to elevate his mistress and legitimize her illegitimate child. He was willing to divorce my mother and use me as a bargaining chip to get her dowry. To preserve his wealthy family's arranged match for me, he let his mistress take my mother's identity and her daughter take mine. The whole family enjoyed a life of luxury with my mother's enormous dowry. They were sure my mother and I wouldn't survive without a penny to our names. But they never knew that we had secret identities of our own. My mother is the richest woman in the land, and I am a top-scoring female official. We establish a household of our own, take on my scumbag father at court, and deal with his mistress and her daughter outside it. One of us focuses on rising through the ranks, the other on making money, and together we take control of wealth and power. We serve up face-slapping and put scumbags in their place, battling corruption in officialdom. What I don't know is that someone has been quietly protecting me all along. My aloof superior, who once opposed women serving as officials and constantly scolded me for being a wild girl, has started looking at me in a very different way...