Reborn through a forced marriage: After being pampered by the eunuch she went berserk

Chu Zhiyi and Chu Miaomiao were reborn with memories of their previous lives. In that past existence, Chu Zhiyi married the deposed Crown Prince Feng Shi, who was a depraved and abusive man. Although she secretly aided the general Ying Feng, who was actually her in disguise, to help Feng Shi seize the throne, she ultimately suffered a tragic fate. Chu Miaomiao, her sister, had married the powerful Grand Eunuch Lan Huaiyu, only to be imprisoned and disfigured by him for ten years before dying in madness. Upon rebirth, Chu Miaomiao sought to switch their marriage arrangements, believing that marrying the deposed prince would allow her to become Empress Dowager, while forcing Chu Zhiyi to marry the feared eunuch to enjoy wealth. However, Chu Zhiyi knew the true nature of both men. She understood that Feng Shi was a fool and a pervert, and that Lan Huaiyu was a powerful figure with a hidden secret: he was a fake eunuch with a secret family in the southern city. Determined to change her fate and avenge the wrongs of her past life, Chu Zhiyi accepted the marriage to Lan Huaiyu with cold calculation.

Before the weddings, Chu Zhiyi returned to the Chu family mansion, where she had been raised in a nunnery for sixteen years after being swapped at birth. She discovered that her mother, Madam Liu, was not her biological parent but a woman who had stolen her as a baby to secure her own status. Madam Liu and Chu Miaomiao had treated her with disdain and cruelty. Chu Zhiyi openly confronted them, kicking servants who disrespected her and plundering valuables from Madam Liu’s rooms. She demanded equal dowries and seized control of her servants' contracts to ensure their loyalty. When her father, Chu Zheng, attempted to punish her in the ancestral hall, she used her martial arts skills to disarm him and topple the ancestral tablets, asserting her dominance. She also revealed that Chu Zheng was infertile and that Madam Liu was the one who could not bear children, causing a fierce domestic dispute that exposed the family's deep-seated hypocrisies.

On her wedding night, Chu Zhiyi entered the mansion of Lan Huaiyu, known as the "Eunuch Ghost." Assassins attacked the mansion, targeting both the eunuch and the new bride. Chu Zhiyi, a skilled fighter, defended herself by using crystal beads from her curtains as projectiles, killing the assassins and saving Lan Huaiyu’s guards. Lan Huaiyu, impressed by her abilities, proposed a seven-year contract: she would act as his wife to maintain his public image and protect his secret family, and in return, he would provide her with wealth and freedom after seven years. She agreed, seeing him as a useful ally in her quest for revenge. Meanwhile, Chu Miaomiao suffered brutal abuse from Crown Prince Feng Shi, enduring physical torture in hopes of her future power.

After the wedding, Lan Huaiyu was quickly conferred the title of Prince, which drew the attention of the Empress, who sent servants to teach Chu Zhiyi palace etiquette. Chu Zhiyi killed these envoys, displaying her ruthless nature and establishing her authority. She returned to the Chu family for a homecoming visit, bringing the corpses of her loyal servants who had died protecting her. She demanded money from Madam Liu and mocked Chu Miaomiao’s whip marks. During this visit, a woman named Qu Wanniang, Chu Zheng’s mistress, sued Madam Liu for hiring hooligans to attack her. Chu Miaomiao advised her mother to accept Qu Wanniang as a concubine to resolve the lawsuit, which Madam Liu reluctantly agreed to. Qu Wanniang then moved into the Chu mansion, taking over Chu Zhiyi’s former residence. The story concludes with Chu Zhiyi consolidating her power within Lan Huaiyu’s mansion, preparing to dismantle her biological family while navigating the treacherous political landscape of the capital.