Forced into a Political Marriage, I Manipulated Great Qin with Ease

Yun Yi transmigrated into the least favored third prince and had only hoped to survive the chaos of the age. But his brothers framed him, saddling him with the disgraceful accusation of defiling his sister-in-law and making him a laughingstock throughout the country. Then his father sent him off to marry into another state, replacing his sixth brother and making him one of the princes offered to the Great Qin as a marriage alliance. The Great Qin had three princesses, each with the right to choose a prince as her husband. His valiant eldest brother and stern second brother were both men of outstanding talent. He alone was infamous, a dissolute wastrel and a joke brought along to make up the numbers. At the ceremony to choose their husbands, the eldest and second princesses competed to claim his brothers. Only the third princess, Ying Shuanghua, was forced to choose him, the one nobody wanted. When she looked at him, her eyes brimmed with undisguised contempt and coldness. Everyone said Yun Yi was finished. Until their wedding night, when he raised his cup with a faint smile: “Your Highness, shall we work together?” She lifted her eyes, a sharp glint flashing in them. “Are you worthy?” Later. Yun Yi sat high in the grand hall, with the third princess, who controlled half the Qin state, at his side. “I’ll take the realm of the Great Qin.”