He Casts Aside His Wife Without Mercy, Then the Emperor Forces Himself on His Minister's Wife?

Five years ago, Xiao Li gave Meng Wuyue a letter of divorce, convinced that she had been unfaithful to him.

Five years later, she is the wife of Wei Mingyao, heir to the Marquis of Jingyang. After an assassination attempt, her husband is near death from saving Xiao Li, and the only hope is to enter the palace and ask for a Golden Pill, a medicine reserved for the imperial family and passed down through the generations.

"I beg Your Majesty to grant me the medicine."

"The Golden Pill can cure all poisons. I have only two. Why should I hand one over to you so readily?"

"What does Your Majesty require in exchange?"

"What do you have to offer?"

Meng Wuyue truly had nothing.

Five years ago, she had been unfaithful, and Xiao Li had given her a letter of divorce. The Meng family sent her far away, and she left the capital with nothing.

Well, not quite nothing. At the very least, she left with a sullied reputation and a name steeped in disgrace.

Everything she had now was given to her by Wei Mingyao.

Without the Wei family, she was nothing.

"This concubine still has her worthless life. If Your Majesty can save the heir, you may do with my life as you please."

"Do with it as I please? You'd give up your life for him?"

"Yes."

"Very well. Since you've pledged your life, pledge your freedom to me as well."

"From now on, you will stay in the palace. You need not return to the Wei residence."

She entered the palace and was kept there by Xiao Li. The emperor had taken his minister's wife, and she had nowhere to run.