The Legitimate Daughter Rakshasa: A Difficult Yandere

The Chosen Daughter Rakshasa: Taming the Sickly Beauty (Synopsis, 300 words)

Shen Yuan, the eldest legitimate daughter of the Duke of Zhenguo's household, was branded a "harbinger of misfortune" at the age of seven. Her father's concubine, Madam Zhou, had conspired with Daoist Wang of Qingyun Temple to claim that she would bring ruin upon her father, mother, and entire family. In the name of "praying for blessings and warding off disaster," she was sent to a mountain convent to live in seclusion for ten years.

Madam Zhou secretly bribed everyone at the convent, and the attempts on Shen Yuan's life never let up: poisoning, snakebites, being pushed into wells, arson... But she didn't know that a former imperial physician from the previous dynasty, long believed to have "passed away," was secretly protecting Shen Yuan. Over those ten years, anyone who tried to harm her either went mad, was crippled, or vanished without a trace.

In the eyes of outsiders, Shen Yuan was forever a frail invalid who gasped after walking three steps and would topple over in a breeze. Only those at the convent knew what kind of rakshasa hid beneath that sickly exterior. At twelve, she crippled twelve mountain bandits single-handedly. At thirteen, she made a local bully kneel at the magistrate's office and return the land deeds. At fourteen, she smiled as she sent her tormentors to prison.

Now seventeen, Shen Yuan has been "graciously permitted" to leave the convent and return home. Everyone in the capital is waiting for a laugh: how long can a frail girl raised in a convent survive in the Duke's household, where people devour one another?

With her maid's support, Shen Yuan shakily stepped down from the carriage. She coughed twice, then raised her eyes to the vermilion gates.

Her gaze shifting, she smiled.

Auntie Zhou, Daoist Wang, I'm back.