[Gossip on the sky screen] [Max-level information advantage] [Broken engagement and face-slapping] [Power grab from behind the scenes] [Lighthearted power fantasy]
In the main hall of the Duke of Zhenguo’s estate, the Crown Prince publicly slammed down a letter breaking off his engagement. Her cousin covered her mouth, barely able to hide her delight, while the guests burst into laughter at Chu Tang, the unwanted woman nobody would marry.
Chu Tang neither cried nor made a scene. She calmly looked up. A colossal screen of light suddenly appeared over Shengjing! Modern gossip played on a loop, and she alone could read the hidden comments a full twelve hours in advance.
While everyone else was still cursing the sky screen for being “indecent,” Chu Tang fixed her eyes on the comment: [A certain Vice Minister has hidden eight hundred thousand taels of stolen silver inside a statue]. That very night, she hired an ox cart and headed straight for the ruined temple outside the city.
The next day at court, the Vice Minister of War went mad on the spot when the hidden silver disappeared. The sky screen exposed the secrets of the city’s powerful one after another, leaving them drenched in sweat and frantically trying to silence witnesses. Meanwhile, the pitiful jilted woman who was supposed to be sobbing in her courtyard, Chu Tang, was crunching melon seeds and counting eight hundred thousand taels in silver, laughing aloud.
Iron smuggling, ledgers of illegal trade, imperial examination fraud… As the sky screen kept spilling secrets, the powerful turned on one another. By the time her ex-fiancé, the Crown Prince, finally caught on, Chu Tang had already taken a firm grip on seventy percent of the capital’s lifelines.
Prince Yan Pei Yin, infamous for his brutality and cruelty, quietly pushed over a wheelchair and offered her peeled walnuts. “Tangtang, who’s the sky screen going to expose tonight?”
Chu Tang tossed down an old ledger and glanced at the imperial palace with a smile. “Why not expose the old emperor? It’s our turn to sit on that throne.”
