The Exiled Concubine's Daughter Takes a Substitute Marriage! The Empire's Tyrant Is at My Feet

“A mere concubine-born daughter thinks she can manage the army’s provisions?”

Faced with the provocation, Su Qing doesn’t even look up. She opens the account book and sneers, “Anyone who steals my army’s provisions will be shown no mercy!”

Her legitimate older sister forces her to take her place in a marriage to a prince, while her father exiles her to protect his own prospects. Su Qing neither cries nor makes a fuss. She binds herself to the Farming System and sets up an astonishing supply line on the frontier. You cut off my provisions? I’ll monopolize the world’s sea salt! You block the weapons? My ironclad warships will crush you all!

Just as the imperial army is routed, the abandoned son of the Shen family, rumored to have died in battle long ago, ascends the throne over a mountain of corpses.

At the new emperor’s coronation, he doesn’t sit on the throne. Instead, he kneels beside Su Qing’s skirts and offers her the imperial seal with both hands. “Without my wife, there would be no Great Zhou. I offer you the realm as my bride-price. Please take pity on me.”

Below the stage, Su Yaru is consumed with jealousy. Su Qing only smiles faintly and points toward the boundless sea…