Embers at the Vermilion Gate

In her previous life, Shen Zhiwei was the legitimate daughter of a marquis's household. She endured everything, only to see her family destroyed. Her stepmother was false and hypocritical, while her half-sister played the fragile innocent. Together, they schemed to seize her dowry, killed her birth mother, and took everything from her, leaving her to die a tragic death.

Reborn on the day she was framed, she was no longer the pushover everyone could bully.

Keeping a cool head and armed with a secret ledger, she exposed their lies to their faces and pursued the truth behind the old murder case one step at a time. She battled them within the household, gathered evidence of their crimes, and shattered every scheme the mother and daughter had devised.

Fu Linyuan upheld justice and offered her his help amid the turmoil.

She would not be a creeping vine dependent on others. She would repay every debt and avenge every grievance, reclaim her family's estate, and take control of her own fate.