After Being Cast Aside, I Shocked the Court with My Adorable Children

In the seventh year of Jinghe under the Qian dynasty, the results of the spring imperial examination are announced. Tian Moxuan, newly named the third-ranked candidate, is clad in red robes, yet he divorces Shen Qingci, the wife who stood by him through ten years of hardship and gave him everything. Once the legitimate daughter of the Shen family of Jinling, she pawned her dowry for him, stayed up late embroidering, and begged her relatives on his behalf. She dulled her own brilliance and became a discarded wife, only to be told she was “too coarse and unworthy,” as he turned to pursue a minister’s daughter.

After being cast aside, Shen Qingci coughs up blood and learns she is pregnant. Her former husband tosses her five taels of silver and declares that the child has nothing to do with him. But even in this desperate situation, she refuses to be crushed. She revives the Shen family’s commercial network and strategic acumen, gives birth to her child alone on a freezing night, and takes shelter with her newborn in the City God temple, surviving with her needlework, bookkeeping, and knowledge of herbs.

No one knows that her child is a prodigy blessed with extraordinary talent: he masters the classics at three, excels at mathematics at four, and uncovers a corruption case involving the grain transport system at five. His reputation as a child prodigy shakes the capital. With her son’s brilliance to support her, Shen Qingci revitalizes the West Market. Her cosmetics shop and grain business take the capital by storm, attracting even the ladies of the palace.

During a year of severe drought, grain prices skyrocket. Mother and son present their plan to the court, and the five-year-old uses a sand table to map out grain transport in the Golden Throne Hall, calculating every loss with pinpoint accuracy. Shen Qingci offers three strategies to resolve the crisis. The emperor is delighted and appoints her Director of Grain Commerce, placing her in charge of the nation’s grain transportation.

Meanwhile, Tian Moxuan, who had climbed the social ladder by currying favor with the powerful, has already been dismissed for embezzlement and thrown into prison. When they meet again behind bars, Shen Qingci is resplendent in elegant finery, and her young son is peerlessly brilliant…

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