The Abandoned Wife Takes the Throne: The Divine Craftswoman's Legitimate Daughter Plots for the World

Yun Shu, the legitimate daughter of a family renowned for its ingenious crafts, cast aside her former glamour for love and married into a respected scholarly family, becoming the young mistress of the Duke Dingguo's household. She kept her talents under wraps, using ten years of knowledge in mechanisms, architecture, and mapmaking to pave the way for her husband's family. The underground passage she designed helped her father-in-law evade an assassination attempt by political rivals. The improved irrigation waterwheel she devised brought her mother-in-law's estates bumper harvests year after year. The military maps she drew helped her husband, Gu Changfeng, earn repeated victories, rising from a frail scholar to a third-rank Senior General of the Imperial Guards.

She thought that giving everything she had would earn her a loving, harmonious marriage. Instead, when he returned victorious, he handed her a divorce letter and cruelly humiliated her. "Yun Shu, though you have all sorts of clever tricks, you come from a family of merchants and artisans, and reek of money. How could you ever be worthy of my current station? Shen Mingyue, the legitimate daughter of the Marquis of Anguo, is exceptionally talented and comes from a distinguished family. She is the one fit to be my wife. Your lowly tricks would only sully the reputation of the Duke Dingguo's household!"

So her ten years of painstaking work had been nothing but a stepping stone for his rise to power. When the defensive plans she had poured her heart and soul into were sent by him to the Marquis of Anguo's estate as betrothal gifts, Yun Shu's heart turned to ash.

She calmly signed the divorce papers, took her immense dowry and secret crafting techniques, and walked away. Everyone thought the discarded wife would spend the rest of her life in misery, becoming the biggest laughingstock in the capital.

But they had no idea that when Yun Shu took up her carving knife and blueprints again, she would change the very order of the world.