The Chancellor Is a Woman: The Regent’s Substitute Bride

A single impeachment memorial laid my brother Xu Chengze’s outrageous misdeeds bare before the court.

The young emperor’s voice trembled from the throne: “Minister Xu, your younger brother…”

Kneeling beneath the palace steps in my brother’s name, I felt the binding under my official robes dig painfully into my chest.

The gaze of the court’s red-robed ministers was like a needle dipped in poison, piercing a face that looked almost exactly like that troublemaker’s.

For twelve years, I had taken the scoldings, punishments, and blame meant for him… Enough to crush the ridgepole of the Hall of Supreme Harmony.

And now, a frantic shout came from outside the palace gates, carried by an urgent courier who had ridden eight hundred li

“Report! Lord Xu! Your younger brother… he’s beaten the Princess Royal’s only son into a cripple!”