The night she stepped into the sedan chair for her sister-in-law, Shen Wantang knew that what she wanted was not a husband, but the status of "Mrs. Prime Minister".
Three years ago, my father was wronged and committed suicide. No one in the whole government dared to touch that old case. She was a concubine in a general's palace, and she couldn't reach out beyond the high wall. She searched for three years and found nothing. It wasn't until an imperial edict pushed her into the arms of Gu Yanzhi, the powerful man, that the opportunity she had been waiting for finally came.
On the wedding night, the groom has not arrived. She didn't cry or fuss, and opened the official documents on his case with her backhand.
Gu Yanzhi, the prime minister of the dynasty, was deeply suspicious and would kill without blood. He thought he was marrying a law-abiding ornament, but he found that the woman he married as a substitute dared to search his study room late at night, dared to expose the perjury he had hidden for three years in person, and dared to rush out with scissors to stop his bleeding when he was assassinated.
He went from testing to appreciating, from appreciating to favoring. Until she put forward three conditions, the last of which was: after the matter is completed, she needs a piece of paper and a letter of departure.
He was silent for a long time while holding the cup of cool tea.
Marriage first, love later × Substitute marriage strategy × Sober heroine
She went from being a chess piece to a chess player, and the most dangerous man in the capital eventually became her biggest trump card.
