After the Substitute Marriage, I Became the Most Powerful Empress in the World.

Everyone in the capital knew that the only thing in the heart of General Xiao Yan was the foreign woman Mu Nihuang brought back from the battlefield. On the wedding night, the groom was absent; on the day of the tea ceremony, the mother-in-law made things difficult. Shen Qingyuan, the substitute wife, is nothing more than a dispensable decoration in the general's mansion. She took a shabby shop left behind by her mother and opened a teahouse on the most remote corner of the capital, named "Qingming Pavilion". Don't fight for favor, don't make trouble, don't blame others. She said that a man's favor is the most unreliable thing in the world, and only money and ability can give a woman confidence. However, Xiao Yan, who never looked directly at her, began to appear frequently in Qingming Pavilion. A cup of tea, a piece of paper, a secret letter from the capital - when Mu Nihuang was falsely accused of being a spy for an enemy country, and when the court and the border made waves at the same time, Shen Qingyuan discovered that she had already been involved in a chess game. And the only chess piece in her hand is the shocking secret left by her mother whom she has never met. This is a legend about a woman who was stepped into the mud by fate, and relied on her own hands and mind to step by step from marrying and abandoning a concubine to becoming the most powerful woman in the world. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.