I Became a Prince's Fat Concubine and Helped a Down-and-Out, Disabled Prince Build a Fortune

Six years ago, Su Yu transmigrated into the body of an overweight, middle-aged concubine in Prince Jing’s household, with neither the prince’s favor nor a child. She kept to herself in a secluded courtyard, ate and drank well, and became so inconspicuous she was practically invisible. She also started a side business and quietly amassed a vast fortune. Then a shocking conspiracy struck. The exalted Prince Jing, Xie Yan, was convicted and thrown into prison. Beaten until he was covered in blood, he was tossed out of the imperial jail. His entire household was confiscated, and he was demoted to commoner. The princess consort remarried, the concubines scattered, and not one of his four children remained. Su Yu’s own father paid a million taels to redeem her, only to turn around and try to sell her as a second wife to a sixty-year-old widower. If she couldn’t afford to offend them, couldn’t she just stay away? Su Yu packed up her gold and valuables in the middle of the night, took some precious medicinal herbs, and climbed over the wall to return to the dying man’s side. Looking at the disfigured man on the bed, she pulled out the account book she kept on her and slapped it against his face. “Xie Yan, you have to get better! I spent a million taels to buy your life. You can’t just die and leave me with the bill!” She had only planned to make a risky investment, using the crippled prince’s name to dodge pressure to marry. Once he made his comeback, she would ask for a release document and leave for good. But as the two of them revealed their secret identities at a country estate west of the city, then made a fortune and kept themselves alive by trading grain and doing business, the gaze of a certain prince, a man with power over all and secret guards everywhere, began to grow increasingly strange. The day her great vengeance was finally avenged and the truth restored, Su Yu tossed the account book in front of him. “The principal and interest, the inheritance from your maternal family you promised me, and my release document. Let’s settle the accounts.” But the man who held power over the realm tore the release document to shreds and locked her tightly in his arms. “I have nothing else to repay you with, so I offer you the realm as my bride price, and myself as your husband.”