[A ruthless woman driven mad after her military achievements are stolen] [A dark-minded heir who has pretended to be a fool for twenty years]
To keep her family safe, Ning Yang strikes a deal with her father and takes her brother's place in the army. After earning military honors and a noble title, she hands them over to her half-brother.
But when she returns home, she discovers her younger brother has been framed and imprisoned, her younger sister married off to a seventy-year-old man, and her mother forced to become a second wife. Her scumbag father even plans to send her away with her mother, to marry her stepfather's foolish eldest son!
She fought through blood and fire on the battlefield, surviving countless brushes with death, while the mother and younger siblings she cared about most were bullied at will in the inner residence!
Ning Yang finally sees the truth. Since she's trapped in a deadly game, she'll fight with her life!
She's a general who clawed her way out of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood. She can endure, and she can be ruthless. She welcomes anyone useful with a smile and casts aside anyone who isn't.
The clever people of Shengjing are all baffled. How can they all be outmatched by this lowborn stepdaughter who's been “recuperating in her hometown” for eight years?
While her scumbag father and half-sister still dream of marrying into the heir's family and rising to glory, she's already stepped over her rivals and entered the court, becoming the Princess Royal's chief strategist.
On the eve of the Ning family's downfall, her scumbag father drops to his knees and begs for mercy.
She looks at him coldly. “Out of respect for our father-daughter relationship, I'll find a pretty dog to gnaw on your corpse.”
Zhang Shu, the heir who has played the fool for twenty years, finally works up the courage to ask, “I wonder if you, Lord Ning, would be willing to marry me?”
Ning Yang frowns.
Get married?
So she can be confined to the household for the rest of her life, bearing and raising children, and drive herself mad chasing a man's scraps of affection?
She wastes no words and fakes her death!
After Ning Yang leaves, Zhang Shu appears calm and unconcerned.
That is, until the study's sobbing is heard for the Nth time late at night. His father can't take it anymore. “Son, stop pretending. The whole world knows you're madly in love with her!”
Da Zhang: Save my wife, save my wife! Xiao Zhang: Save the boss, save the boss! Yangyang: Please do not cue, you have saved yourself.
Although he has a low IQ, he still has what an adult man should have.