The Splendid Legitimate Daughter Rules the World

Seven years ago, she was the legitimate daughter of the Prime Minister’s household, but her stepmother framed her as an ill omen and sent her away to a mountain temple. There, she unexpectedly met him. He helped her uncover the truth about her mother’s death and taught her music, chess, calligraphy, painting, singing, dancing, and the art of tea. She spent seven years lying low, all for the sake of avenging her mother and washing away her humiliation.

Seven years later, she returned to the Prime Minister’s household. Step by step, she plotted her way forward, tripping up her stepmother and ruining her half-sister. She swore to destroy everyone in the world who had wronged her!

He held power over all under Heaven; she was unmatched in ruthlessness. Ten years of entanglement: a game of mutual exploitation, and a love that ran deep...