Stealing My Military Merits? The Reborn True Daughter Destroys Her Entire Family

Song Yiqiu, the legitimate eldest daughter of the Song family, returns to the capital after seven years of military service on the frontier, only to find her status usurped by Song Sangyu, an adopted sister who has ingratiated herself with the family. In her previous life, Yiqiu had devoted herself to her family, seeking promotions for her brothers and working tirelessly for their benefit, only to be framed for adultery and murdered by her own father and siblings. Reborn at the moment of her welcome-home banquet, she retains the memories of her tragic death and resolves to never trust them again. During the feast, Sangyu attempts to drug Yiqiu with an aphrodisiac hidden in her fingernail, intending to ruin her reputation. Yiqiu, however, detects the powder and cleverly redirects the drugged wine to Crown Prince Xiao Yongjing, a feared and powerful figure present at the banquet. When Sangyu screams in panic, Yiqiu spills the wine on the Prince’s robe, feigning clumsiness. The Prince, intrigued by her composure, allows the matter to drop. Yiqiu then deliberately drinks the remaining drugged wine and induces an allergic reaction by eating celery, a known allergen, causing her to collapse dramatically. She falls into the Prince’s arms, whispering a plea for help, which forces him to intervene and escort her to her quarters, thwarting Sangyu’s plan to lock her in a stablehand’s room.

Once in her room, Yiqiu reveals her true nature, revealing she had feigned unconsciousness. She confronts the groom planted by Sangyu, threatening him into silence and staging a robbery scene to expose the maid Hongxiu’s collusion. By shifting the narrative from adultery to attempted murder and theft, she forces her family to concede to her demands, reclaiming her original courtyard and a substantial financial compensation. Sangyu is punished with confinement, and Yiqiu begins to systematically dismantle her family’s favoritism. She refuses her mother’s request to secure a military post for her eldest brother, Song Tianhan, instead manipulating him into a deal for rare fighting cocks in exchange for his compliance in hiding her true intentions. Yiqiu also reaches out to Yun Yiniang, a marginalized concubine, and learns the location of her former maid, Qingzhu.

Yiqiu discovers Qingzhu serving as a lowly, abused maid in the courtyard of her second brother, Song Wenbin, a man with unconventional tastes. Qingzhu reveals that she has been feigning madness for seven years to survive and discloses a shocking secret: Yiqiu’s grandmother, the family’s matriarch and a celebrated general, was not killed by bandits as the family claimed, but was murdered by someone within the household. Qingzhu overheard Yiqiu’s parents discussing the cover-up and the desire to frame the death on Sangyu. This revelation confirms that the peerage title, which Yiqiu was forced to forfeit by drawing the short straw to the harsh frontier, was always intended for Sangyu. Yiqiu vows to uncover the truth behind her grandmother’s death and make her family pay. She takes Qingzhu back to her courtyard, where they are soon visited by Matron Wang, a spy for Yiqiu’s mother. During the visit, Yiqiu selects a new maid, Bai Mei, who she recognizes as her former deputy general from the frontier, now disguised as a servant. The story concludes with Yiqiu consolidating her power, reclaiming her lost allies, and preparing to expose the conspiracies that destroyed her family in her past life.