Steal the Legitimate Daughter and Replace Her with a Concubine's Child? The True Heiress Is Reborn and Will Never Forgive

The most important thing in Shen Mingtang's life was figuring out how to please her elder sister.

Ever since she could remember, her concubine-born mother had told her that a legitimate daughter was a cloud in the heavens, while a daughter born of a concubine was mud on the ground. They were worlds apart.

Her elder sister ordered her around, while her mother beat and berated her at every turn.

Even the reward she earned by risking her life to save Prince Rui was, at her mother's coaxing, supposed to be given to her elder sister.

In her previous life, her elder sister used that reward to become a county princess, then married into a prestigious family on the strength of Shen Mingtang's achievements.

She thought this would finally win the favor of her mother and her concubine-born mother, but she still died at their hands.

Only as she lay dying did Shen Mingtang learn that she was not her mother's biological daughter.

She was the legitimate wife's daughter!

She was the legitimate one. Her elder sister was the concubine-born daughter.

Reborn, Shen Mingtang chooses to fight for everything she wants.

This time, she will reclaim the destiny that was always hers, and protect both her birth mother and herself.

Though born as a concubine's daughter, she plans her every move, gets close to her birth mother, exposes the cruelty of her concubine-born mother and elder sister, and drives them out of the household along with her scumbag father.

Just as Shen Mingtang and her birth mother are settling into a more and more comfortable life, an imperial edict of marriage arrives.

The man presses her at every turn. "You asked me to protect you for three years. Now I can't bear to be without you."