In her previous life, Zhao Manjin's stepmother schemed away her mother's dowry, while her younger half-sister climbed over her to marry into a prestigious family. She was also set up to marry a good-for-nothing man. After their wedding, he used her to climb the ranks, never treating her well and instead humiliating her at every turn, until she died full of resentment...
Reborn, she outwits her stepmother, tramples her half-sister, and brutally punishes the scum of an ex-husband. A two-faced white lotus belongs with a scoundrel, so her half-sister can marry him.
She no longer believes in love and refuses the many talented young men who come to seek her hand, devoting herself instead to protecting her brother and the Earl's household.
From then on, everyone in the capital knows that the Earl of Tongqin has an "old maid."
Unexpectedly, the usually taciturn and icy Prince Kang arrives with drums and gongs to propose. "I have admired Second Miss Zhao for many years. I have come to offer the betrothal gifts."
