Transmigrated as a Bullied Concubine's Daughter

Xia Qingqing, a former special forces doctor from the Blue Dragon Kingdom, dies in a jungle mission and transmigrates into the body of a fourteen-year-old girl in the Great Hua Dynasty. The original Xia Qingqing was the illegitimate daughter of Xia Jinxing, a third-rank deputy minister of the Ministry of Revenue. Her mother, a scholar's daughter, waited years for Xia Jinxing to return after he abandoned her to marry into a powerful family. Upon arriving in the capital, the mother was deceived, assaulted, and forced to live in a dilapidated courtyard until she died of a cold. Xia Jinxing brought the girl into the main mansion only to hide his past infidelity, treating her as a servant while his legitimate wife, Madam Yan, and their children subjected her to daily humiliation, starvation, and physical abuse.

After drowning while trying to steal food for her maid, Xiao Suo, Xia Qingqing awakens with her modern memories intact. Rejecting her previous passive endurance, she immediately fights back when Wang Pozi, a servant sent to beat her, enters her room. Using a small table, she strikes Wang Pozi on the head, causing her to flee in terror. When Xia Jinxing’s son, Xia Tiance, and daughter, Xia Jinlan, lead a group of servants to retaliate, Xia Qingqing grabs a chopping knife and holds Xia Tiance hostage. She forces her father to provide food, clothing, and medicine, establishing a fragile truce. Realizing she cannot survive long-term without resources, she decides to leave the mansion secretly to earn money using her medical knowledge.

Xia Qingqing climbs over the backyard wall and enters the city, where she accidentally steps on a cricket belonging to Young Master Liu, the grandson of the Empress Dowager. Despite his childish demeanor and intellectual disabilities, he insists she accompany him to Xinglin Hall, a prestigious pharmacy, to compensate him. Inside, she encounters Old Doctor Sun, the head of the Imperial Medical Institute, who is treating Young Master Liu for a mysterious poisoning. Xia Qingqing observes the boy’s symptoms and correctly diagnoses the toxin, offering her homemade Powerful Detoxification Pills. Impressed by her skill, Old Doctor Sun purchases the formula for a hundred taels of silver, providing her with her first significant capital.

The Empress Dowager, learning of Xia Qingqing’s background and her father’s neglect through her servants, becomes enraged. She summons Emperor Jing and demands he reprimand Xia Jinxing for mistreating his daughter. The Emperor warns Xia Jinxing that his family management reflects poorly on his character, forcing the minister to order his staff to treat Xia Qingqing with respect and provide her with proper living quarters. However, Xia Jinlan, jealous of a fox fur cloak gifted to Xia Qingqing by the Empress Dowager, steals it and beats the girl with guards. Xia Qingqing survives but resolves to take revenge.

That night, Xia Qingqing releases poisonous snakes and insects into the guards’ quarters, causing chaos and injuries. She also exposes Butler Lin’s infidelity to his wife, destabilizing the household’s internal power structure. When Captain Jia leads twenty guards to punish her the next morning, Xia Qingqing uses itching powder and a hatchet to incapacitate them, leaving them bleeding and unable to pursue her further. The incident solidifies her reputation as a dangerous adversary within the mansion. Meanwhile, the Empress Dowager continues to monitor Xia Qingqing, seeing potential value in the girl’s medical talents and her connection to her grandson. Xia Qingqing begins to navigate the complex political landscape, leveraging her newfound wealth and the protection of the imperial family to challenge the Xia household’s authority while planning her eventual independence.