Mute Dad, Queen Daughter

Nan Shuang was left by her parents as a child and brought up by a man who cannot speak. She got out of the village and came to run the underworld in Jiangcheng. Her adoptive brother went after her position and she handled him herself, and after that she gave the whole thing up and went home to look after her father. While she was gone a man in the village had invented a debt in her father's name and gone after the house. He made the old man eat raw meat, and had him stripped and was setting about him the way you would a pig when Nan Shuang came through the door. She killed him and the rest of his household. One of the servants got out and carried the news to the man's older brother, who is now coming for her. Her father, who thinks about what happens to her later, sends her off to the family she was promised to years ago. She turns up in poor clothes so as not to look like an expense to them. The family takes her for a beggar and her fiance says as much to her face, and she calls off the engagement in front of the room.