You Dare Ask Me to Marry for Peace? I’ll Topple Your Throne, So What?

[A scheming fake princess VS a lovestruck marquis who willingly lets himself be used] Xie Shuhe is a fake princess. The real princess refuses to marry into a foreign royal family, so she drugs Xie Shuhe and threatens her into taking her place. Little does she know, this has all gone according to Xie Shuhe’s plan. She intends to use the real princess’s power to get revenge. Among the candidates for her marriage, she chooses a dissolute marquis as her consort. But on the eve of the wedding, she discovers that the marquis is only pretending to be a wastrel! He acts like a good-for-nothing who’s afraid of death, but behind the scenes he’s plotting something that could get his entire clan executed. Just like her, he’s planning to kill the emperor! What a coincidence! A knife delivered right to her door? She’d be a fool not to use it! She uses this secret to force Jiang Yunye to work for her. But little by little, she doesn’t know when he managed to uncover her secret, too. By the bath, after a fierce struggle, Jiang Yunye, who’s been stabbed twice, lifts her sleeve to confirm who she is. “You’re a fake princess, and I’m a fake wastrel. We’re even. Why don’t we work together?” A partnership it is! On the day their plan succeeds, Xie Shuhe reclaims her identity, kills her enemy with her own hands, abandons her husband and his household, and ascends the throne. In the palace, the empress sits high above him, coolly looking down at the man who has come after her. “The marquis’s wife ran away. What does that have to do with me?” The marquis, furious enough to ache in his heart and liver, grits his teeth and steps forward. “My wife ran away and has nowhere to go. Your Majesty’s inner palace is vacant. Might I move in?” “And if I refuse?” “Then I’ll offer myself as your bedmate.”