She Writes Her Own Crown

Lou Xinyue was cast out by the marquis household and died as a discarded wife. She comes back to the beginning of it with everything she learned, and the meekness is gone. She is in fact the trueborn daughter of the Prince of Jiyang's household, a fact the family that raised Lou Ruoxi in her place has kept buried. She has medicine and she has a head for court maneuvering, and she uses both on Shen Huanian, the man who ruined her, and on Lou Ruoxi, the false daughter wearing her name. She tears up the marriage contract herself and drags the scheming behind it into the open. Xie Ziwei, the cold commandery lord, is carrying a rare gu poison in his body, and the two of them work as equals, each with something the other cannot manage alone. Every person who betrayed her pays for it, and she helps Xie Ziwei settle the court and take hold of real power.