A cultivator won't put up with being pushed around.
[The real and fake heiress + the whole family faces a reckoning + absolutely no forgiveness]
Orphan Shi Zhao believed she was the long-lost daughter of the Marquis's household, but was exposed as an impostor.
She thought she shared more than ten years of deep family bonds with the household, only to be pushed forward to take a bullet for the real heiress.
Thrown into the imperial prison, she endured the Thousand-Needle Punishment.
She finally saw the truth and began to reform people through sheer violence.
The Marquis's household thought nothing of her. The powerful nobles of the capital, convinced she had lost her protectors and was weak and easy to bully, were even more eager to trample her into the dirt.
But she left them with swollen mouths after just a few blows.
They shouted furiously, “Bodhisattvas are compassionate! How can you act so brazenly?”
Shi Zhao pressed her palms together. “Amitabha. Since you refuse to repent, it seems I'll have to turn up the heat.”
After she beat them black and blue, people and events from her past inexplicably came back to haunt her, all putting on an act as they begged for her forgiveness.
They tried everything: groveling, hurting themselves to beg for punishment, even defying imperial orders. Shi Zhao didn't so much as raise an eyebrow.
The Buddhist faith has nothing to do with the business of settling old scores.
When the dust finally settled, her devoted admirers asked Shi Zhao why she still cultivated and worshipped the Buddha.
Shi Zhao sighed. “Sincere people are hard to come by.”
But everyone in the capital knew that the ruthless enforcer who obeyed only the emperor had fallen for a young nun.
