Cool-headed, calculating powerbroker X Resilient, clear-eyed beauty
[One Devoted Couple + Rise to Power + Strong Leads + Love and Hate + The Powerful Submit + Female Emperor + Careful Planning + Happy Ending]
For generations, the Shang clan guarded the borderlands. Their family was loyal to the throne, yet the emperor grew suspicious of them.
The tyrant, ruling without regard for justice, fabricated a grave charge of treason. In a single night, the entire Shang clan was slaughtered at the execution grounds.
A marriage contract temporarily spared Shang Que's life, but her fiance broke off their engagement, and she was reduced to a palace slave.
At a palace banquet, she tried to assassinate the tyrant in front of everyone.
The Imperial Guards surrounded her in layer upon layer, their blades and spears like a forest. Her eyes settled on the most valuable bargaining chip in the room: Wen Zhibai.
He commanded a powerful army and was richer than the state itself. Even the emperor feared him.
"Master Wen, I need to borrow your life today."
Wen Zhibai caught her wrist. "You may borrow it."
A long blade pressed against her neck. The girl's eyes shone like stars, and at a glance, she entered his dreams.
After that, Shang Que took a new name and identity, luring him in step by step until she became Wen Zhibai's lover.
War engulfed the land, and the nations fought among themselves. By the time Wen Zhibai gently coaxed her to bear his children, the fate of the realm was already in her hands.
Without the slightest hesitation, he knelt at the foot of the steps and presented the imperial seal with both hands. "I, your subject, am willing to serve beneath Your Majesty's skirts."
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