Shen Jinghong, the most distinguished legitimate daughter in the Great Jing, was born to a father who was a grand general guarding the nation and a mother descended from the eldest princess. She grew up surrounded by every luxury, controlled half the capital's commercial network, and was pledged to Jiang Muyuan, a young man from a great family.
Then, like a thunderclap, the Shen family was accused of colluding with the enemy, and the General Who Guards the Nation's household fell overnight. Her father was executed in the marketplace, and her mother took her own life to preserve her honor. Shen Jinghong fell from the clouds into hell, burdened with a deed of sale and reduced to the lowest kind of government slave.
Jiang Muyuan, who had once promised her a lavish wedding procession stretching ten miles, turned around and courted her green-tea cousin, Su Wanqing. Together, they trampled her into the mud, stole her dowry, and humiliated her.
By imperial decree, she was married to the laughingstock of the capital: Prince Jing Xiao Che, bedridden for years and without support. With food cut off in the cold courtyard, servants bullying her, a secondary consort framing her, and nobles jeering at her, everyone said she would not live three months.
Shen Jinghong swallows her humiliation and enters the game. She tears down the scoundrel, kicks the green tea, takes control of the prince's household, and wins over the Shen family's former subordinates. Step by step, she rises from a condemned slave to the mistress of the prince's household.
Xiao Che hides his true abilities behind a show of weakness, while she plans every move. They begin as a married couple of convenience, then fall in love after marriage, carefully scheming to seize the realm.
The political landscape changes overnight: the old emperor dies suddenly, the crown prince usurps the throne, and the realm descends into chaos!
As a woman, she devises a strategy to quell the rebellion, opens the granaries to feed the people, and wins the hearts of the three armies, helping Xiao Che ascend the throne.
From slave to empress, from ruin to an age of prosperity: these vast lands are both the path she paved for him and the supreme glory she won for herself!
