The Real Heiress Served as a Maid for Four Years. After She Cut Ties, the Whole Household Was Heartbroken

Chu Chuichong is the legitimate daughter of the chief physician of the Imperial Medical Bureau. She is only found and brought back after coming of age, by which time the household already has a fake heiress who goes out of her way to bully her. When the Imperial Consort suffers a miscarriage, Chu Chuichong is blamed and punished, yet not one person in the household visits her. She spends four whole years in the Bureau of State Relatives, enduring humiliation and punishment. Only after her grandfather cures the Empress's old ailment does he earn enough favor to secure her release. Her brothers, once kind and affectionate, have changed, and her fiancé abandons her as well. Everyone in the household says, “Without the Chu family, she's just a criminal who spent three years as a servant.” If that's how it is, then Chu Chuichong wants nothing to do with the entire Chu family. Only after she rises to fame and the palace declares that the Chu family has produced a miracle doctor do they begin to regret their actions and desperately seek her forgiveness in every way they can. She merely smiles faintly. “Too late.”