After Being Cast Aside, I Became the Powerful Minister's Beloved

On the day of her wedding, the Crown Prince broke off the engagement in the middle of the street.

Shen Yuan, the legitimate eldest daughter of the Yong'an Marquis's household, was wearing her wedding dress when she was trampled into the mud. All of the capital watched and laughed at her. Her father looked on coldly, her stepmother gloated, and her younger half-sister took her place. She became the most disgraced abandoned woman in the entire dynasty.

Everyone thought the discarded woman would sink into despair and die unnoticed in some corner.

Three months later.

Dressed in plain clothes and carrying a jar of Snow Mountain Silver Needle tea, she knocked on the door of the Chancellor's residence, home to the most powerful official in the court.

Pei Yanzhi was twenty-eight and already a first-rank official, wielding power over the court with ruthless methods. The noblewomen of the capital would do anything to marry him, yet he had never spared them a glance. Rumor had it that he shunned women and cared nothing for wealth. His only passion was tea.

Shen Yuan neither competed nor schemed, neither fawned nor flattered. She simply let him see her once, from across an alley.

That single glance was all it took for the powerful minister to let someone into his heart.

Later, when the Crown Prince knelt outside the Chancellor's residence to beg for an audience, Pei Yanzhi put an arm around Shen Yuan's waist and said nonchalantly,

“I'm not receiving him. I have tea to share with my wife.”

The Crown Prince was consumed with regret, the Marquis's household begged her to return, and all of the capital was saying the same thing:

The woman who had been cast aside had long since become the most cherished person in the powerful minister's heart.