The True Daughter of Fortune Has Severed Ties and Cultivates the Dao

Shen Yuepo is a Daoist priestess at the dilapidated Xu Jing Guan, toiling in poverty alongside her senior brother Lin Yanxin. During a sudden thunderstorm, a bolt of purple lightning strikes the backyard, and she sees black energy seeping from an ancient covered well. A black shadow darts out, and she uses her peachwood sword to fight it. The shadow reveals itself as a tall, noble man in blood-soaked black robes with phoenix eyes and a cinnabar mole. Before she can react, he forces a drop of his blood into her brow, declaring a contract: if he lives, she lives; if he dies, she is buried with him. He then collapses, and she stores his fading soul body in her white jade bracelet using a Yin-Yang borrowing technique. Three men from a supernatural investigation team arrive, buy peace talismans for five hundred yuan each, and leave.Shen Yuepo discovers that the trapped man inside the bracelet is named Feng Jin, and she deduces from Xuanmen records that he is likely Emperor Beiyin of Fengdu, the supreme ruler of the Underworld. Realizing her life is now tied to his, she proposes a transaction: she will find a lost item he needs, and in return, he will break the blood contract. Feng Jin agrees, but with a six-month deadline and a penalty—if she fails, he will take the jade bracelet that contains her origin spiritual essence. Shen Yuepo accepts. Feng Jin then goes into hibernation.Three days after her lightning-wielding video goes viral, the wealthy Shen family from the Imperial Capital arrives at the temple. Madam Shen recognizes a crescent-shaped birthmark on Shen Yuepo's neck and believes she is their long-lost daughter, abducted eighteen years ago. Chairman Shen immediately takes her back to the Shen family villa. Her senior brother Lin Yanxin reluctantly sends her off with dramatic farewells.At the villa, Shen Yuepo meets her biological mother, Madam Shen, and her father, Chairman Shen. She also encounters her three siblings: the eldest brother Shen Wangchuan, who warns her to stay away from their adopted sister Shen Yurou; the second brother Shen Yishan, who angrily accuses her of rudeness when she ignores Shen Yurou’s timid greeting; and Shen Yurou herself, who acts fragile and pitiful. Shen Yuepo remains cold and indifferent, declaring that she has no interest in disturbing anyone and that if they want to sever the familial relationship, she will leave immediately. Madam Shen is heartbroken and defends her forcefully.Shen Yuepo also interacts with the butler, giving him a peace talisman in exchange for one hundred yuan in cash, showing her pragmatic nature and her readiness to trade talismans for money. Later, the family gathers in the living room, where Chairman Shen scolds his children for their hostility. Madam Shen emotionally rebukes them, reminding them of the eighteen years of hardship Shen Yuepo endured. Shen Wangchuan internally reflects on his bond with Shen Yurou, who he had always treated as the kidnapped sister, and now struggles to accept Shen Yuepo as a stranger and intruder.The story sets up Shen Yuepo’s core conflict: navigating her newfound family responsibilities while secretly working under a life-and-death contract with a powerful underworld emperor, all while trying to maintain her independent Daoist identity and find the lost item within six months to free herself from the blood contract. The familial tensions, the supernatural threats, and the six-month deadline form the foundation of her journey.