Her father died in the border battle, and she helped him return to Beijing. The whole city looked coldly, and there was no one to rely on.
The Queen Mother granted marriage to the Crown Prince, and the second wife took advantage of her to keep her filial piety and embezzled the family property - everyone was waiting for her to cry and accept her fate.
She doesn't. In the mourning hall, irrefutable evidence of corruption was thrown out in public. At the palace banquet, Concubine De's old accounts were recited one by one. The prince let her go and she turned around and left. On the day when the decree to cancel the engagement was issued, she knelt down to thank her, with a slight smile on her face - she wanted to get out of this marriage from the day she received the decree.
The regent, Xiao Yu, wields power over both the government and the public, and is cold-faced and taciturn. The first time I saw her, she was standing in the imperial garden wearing plain clothes and white flowers. Her sleeves were trembling with nervousness, but she dared to look directly into his eyes.
From then on, he never took his eyes away.
She opened a shop, laid out hidden stakes, and turned a spice shop into a fulcrum for leveraging the capital. He shielded her from hidden arrows, and she helped him catch the moths. She once said: The prince and I are just trading partners.
Until the war broke out again in the north, she led five hundred dead soldiers to attack the enemy camp at night, and he ran thousands of miles to block the fatal arrow for her. Lying in the military tent and opening his eyes, the first thing he said was——
"Did you win?"
She nodded.
He stretched out his hand to wipe away the blood on her face: "Don't cry. I haven't married you yet, so I can't die."
From an orphaned girl to a queen, what she wants is not anyone's protection, but to stand side by side with him at the highest level.
In this world, she can take it herself.
