The Scumbag’s Climbing the Social Ladder? The Coolheaded Powerful Official Has My Back, and I Won’t Forgive Him!

[Thorny Rose Physician] [Cool-Headed, Cunning Minister]

Shen Qingtang has neither father nor mother, and treats her fiance's family as her own. For six years, she works herself to the bone to support Zhou Yanzhi and his family.

But once Zhou Yanzhi passes the imperial examination, he curries favor with the powerful, and his mother seizes the chance to sell her off.

Trying to protect herself, Shen Qingtang accidentally kills someone and is locked away in a lightless prison, where she suffers endless torment.

She finally manages to escape, only to die at the hands of the Zhou family.

Reborn, Shen Qingtang happens by chance to cling to the thigh of Pei Heng, the Minister of Rites.

The man who forces her to marry him has his crimes exposed.

Those who cast her aside like trash watch as they lose their posts and their powerful patrons are toppled, crashing down into the dirt. Only then do they realize Shen Qingtang was the real powerful patron all along, and regret it bitterly.

Meanwhile, a certain cool-headed minister's eyes turn red as he falls for her. Losing control, he holds her tightly in his arms, saying only, "I've finally found you..."