Demoted from Legitimate Daughter to Concubine? Qingqing, the Nine-Thousand-Year-Old, Helps Me Claim the Phoenix Throne

Chu Huiyin had once been a noble young lady of the capital. After her maternal family fell from power, her father shot an arrow through her arm in front of the ancestral shrine. Watching her curl up in pain, he looked down at her and declared, "You've been arrogant and ill-mannered since childhood. Starting today, you will go without food for seven days and reflect on your mistakes!"

Soon after, the Chu family helped the cruel and vicious Concubine Meng take the position of principal wife. Her half-sister, Chu Guiyi, took her marriage arrangement and was set to marry her childhood sweetheart and betrothed.

A hundred sedan chairs bearing the betrothal gifts poured into the residence. Everyone praised her half-sister and former fiance as a match made in heaven.

Her father had once personally taught her poetry and books, cherished and protected her, and promised her a life of security. But now he took all the honor that should have been hers and gave it to Chu Guiyi.

So Chu Guiyi was the daughter her father loved most.

Chu Guiyi was her grandmother's darling, her childhood sweetheart's beloved, the celebrated eldest daughter of the Chu family...

And Chu Huiyin had been demoted from legitimate daughter to concubine-born, imprisoned in the ancestral shrine and left to fend for herself.

As she hovered on the brink of death, someone gently wiped the blood from her face with a fingertip. His tone was cool, yet his words rang out with authority: "Do you want revenge?"

Chu Huiyin nodded without hesitation.

From then on, she was bound for life to the notorious Eunuch of Nine Thousand Years, feared throughout the court.

He cleared away her enemies and obstacles, stirring up storms in the imperial court. After years of upheaval, the once-legitimate daughter of a general's household finally took control of the imperial harem and ascended to the highest seat of power.

The fallen members of the general's household knelt before her, begging for forgiveness through tears and blood.

She only sneered. "Too late. You left me to starve for seven days and die on my own, and your whole family turned its back on me. Today, I'll repay you a hundredfold!"