[play the pig to eat the tiger + Substitute Bride, Secret Identity Revealed + Ultimate face-slapping + Political Scheming and Business Warfare + Two Powerful Leads Who Dote on Each Other]
Everyone in the capital knows that Shang Qi, the legitimate eldest daughter of the marquis’s household, is a frail, unwanted girl who might collapse at the slightest breeze.
With the marquis’s household on the verge of bankruptcy, they treat her as a sacrificial pawn, deny her even a dowry, and force her to take another bride’s place and marry Huo Ci, the notorious chancellor known as the “Living King of Hell.”
The whole capital waits for her to meet a gruesome end in the chancellor’s residence!
But on her wedding day, the Nine Provinces Trade Guild sends a lavish procession of bridal gifts stretching ten miles, stunning the entire court and humiliating the marquis’s household!
After the wedding, her scumbag father and stepmother try to mooch off her? Shang Qi sneers, cuts off their funds, and sends the whole family into exile three thousand li away!
A court merchant tries to seize her assets by force? She launches a price war and leaves them with nothing!
The Jiangnan floods leave the national treasury empty? Standing proudly atop a high platform in brocade, she declares, “I’ll cover all the chancellor’s disaster relief grain!”
Her secret identity is finally revealed, and the world is stunned to learn that this seemingly delicate wife is the richest person in the land, with a fortune that rivals a nation, as well as the master of the Heavenly Secret Pavilion, which controls the flow of intelligence!
And the cold-faced, powerful chancellor Huo Ci not only uses the machinery of state to back her, but also entrusts his life to her when enemy forces invade.
She spends a fortune buying up the grain supplies of ten nations, while he defends the border with fifty thousand iron cavalry!
When all is settled, Huo Ci drops to one knee before the stunned court officials and offers the imperial jade seal as a betrothal gift to his wife!
