Mistress of the Marquis’s Household: I Turn My Cruel Mother-in-Law into a Second Mother

On the very day she marries into the Marquis's household, her wicked mother-in-law makes her kneel in the ancestral hall. Her family has fallen into ruin, and as the daughter of a disgraced official, her meager dowry has made the entire capital laugh at the Marquis's household. Everyone bets she won't last three months. But then... When a concubine fakes a pregnancy, she has her confined; When the second branch embezzles the family fortune, she drives them out of the household; Even the secondary consort sent by the Empress Dowager ends up slinking back to the palace. Her wicked mother-in-law personally presses the storeroom keys into her hand. “My dear daughter-in-law, from now on, you call the shots in this household!” Her easygoing husband turns into a fiercely protective wife-doting man. “Anyone who dares to mess with my wife will have their ancestral shrine torn down!” But they don't know that she never married into the Marquis's household to be a dutiful wife and mother... [One-on-one romance + love after marriage + mother-in-law and daughter-in-law team up + satisfying revenge + play the pig to eat the tiger + household intrigue and power games]