Five Years After I Took My Sister’s Place, the Legitimate Daughter Returns

Her legitimate elder sister ran away from her wedding.

Wen Zhu, a concubine-born daughter raised on an estate, takes her place and marries into the household as the heir's wife.

Her husband is a man of grace and virtue, disciplined and proper. Everyone says she's struck the best bargain imaginable.

She uses her dowry to pave his path to success, helping him climb higher and higher until he is a man of great power and status.

Five years later, her elder sister returns. Her husband puts an arm around her sister and says, "You're still only a concubine's daughter. You don't deserve to be the principal wife."

As everyone mocks her, Wen Zhu obediently hands over control of the household and watches them joyfully prepare for the wedding.

She takes her daughter by the hand and walks into the prime minister's residence without looking back.

The newly appointed prime minister, who holds power over the entire court, takes her hand and declares before everyone, "This is my wife. Whoever bullies her makes an enemy of me."

Only when her former husband's family is ruined and he kneels in the snow to beg for mercy does he realize that the concubine-born daughter he treated as worthless was the hidden mastermind controlling half the capital's economy.

And the cold, ruthless prime minister looks at Wen Zhu with a tenderness that could melt anyone's heart.

The heir's eyes turn red. "When did you become Pei Xingzhi's beloved?"

The prime minister draws her into his arms and smiles. "She has always been mine. She was before, and she always will be."