[Household intrigue and revenge + medical skills + face-slapping and punishing scumbags]
Orphaned young, the legitimate daughter Xue Liancheng was abandoned in the countryside for ten years.
By the time she returned to the family home, her two stepsisters had already become celebrated beauties in the capital.
To them, Xue Liancheng was “a crude, filthy country bumpkin.”
Her stepmother pretended to care for her, only to tear up her marriage contract that very night.
“The engagement with the Duke of Zhenguo’s family naturally belongs to my daughter. You’re a country orphan. Do you think you’re worthy?”
She lowered her eyes and gave a cold smile. A silver needle glinted between her fingers...
After ten years in hiding, she had mastered the arts of medicine and poison. Even the King of Hell would give her a wide berth!
“If you insist on calling me crude and filthy, then I’ll make sure I become the heir’s wife.”
She personally changed her betrothed to the decisive elder brother of her former fiancé.
On their wedding night, as he lifted her veil,
the heir, rumored to be cold and heartless, toyed with the silver hairpin she had laced with poison.
“Your medical skills are even more captivating to me than the title of heir to the Duke of Zhenguo’s family.”
He traced the old scars on her back. “Does it hurt?”
She smiled. “Not as much as my heart pounds when you put a flower in my hair, my lord.”
“They say I’ve married a man-eating flower.”
He smiled and bit her fingertip, tasting her blood. “They don’t know I’m willing to be the soil that nurtures it.”
From then on, she helped him purge the wicked, and he gave her power beyond measure.
On her stepsister’s wedding night, a sudden illness turned her into a laughingstock.
Her stepmother “accidentally” slashed the face she treasured.
Her father knelt in the pouring rain, begging her to save his career.
She crushed the wreckage beneath her feet and looked down at the miserable insects before her.
“The suffering you once inflicted on me, I’ve forged into a blade and returned to you, ”
“Does it hurt? This is only the beginning.”