After an Arranged Marriage, I Win Over the Cold-Hearted Tyrant With My Cooking

Everyone in the capital knew that Jiang Nanxing, daughter of the wealthiest man in Jiangnan, had taken her sister's place in marriage. She brought a lavish bridal dowry and married into the impoverished Jingyuan Marquis's household, only to become a fool who spent her days tinkering with food in the inner quarters. After supporting the marquis's household for five years, her husband Lu Changze returned victorious from war with a pregnant woman in tow, demanding permission to take her as his equal wife. Facing the whole family's parasitic greed, the quick-witted Jiang Nanxing sneered. She cut off the household's food and clothing, took back every last piece of her dowry, and left behind a divorce letter. Lu Changze thought that once she left the marquis's household, she would be reduced to wandering the streets, being from a merchant family. But he didn't know that on the very day they divorced, her tycoon father said, "Don't worry, my darling daughter. I'll cut off the imperial court's salt and iron supplies to vent your anger!" Her unscrupulous elder brother said, "Don't cry, little sis. I'll corner the grain market in the capital and starve those scumbags!" Her martial-arts-obsessed second brother said, "Who bullied my sister? I'll take the army and flatten the marquis's estate right now!" Seeing the whole family eager to start a rebellion, the Empress Dowager panicked and the Emperor was dumbstruck.

Jiang Nanxing spread her hands helplessly. "All I wanted was to quietly make my fortune. Why are you all making this about me?"

The regent, famed for his ruthless decisiveness, silently offered her a tiger tally. "My lady, if someone wants to make trouble, let me join you in the rebellion."