[Dual Secret Identities] [Historical Romance] [Transmigration] [Reborn] [Substitute Marriage] [Farming and Fortune-Building] [Face-Slapping Power Fantasy] [Woman Disguised as a Man] [A Powerful Alliance] [Empress]
The whole capital was waiting for a laugh: the Shen family's concubine-born daughter would marry her sister's dying husband to bring him good luck.
On their wedding night, before the veil was lifted, "the prince" grabbed her wrist and pressed her hand to his collarbone.
"Have you felt it clearly? I am a woman."
Shen Wanhe's vision went black. Her substitute marriage had landed her in a shocking conspiracy.
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She was an impostor, and "he" was the true dragon in disguise as a man.
The entire court was waiting for the prince to die of illness and for the concubine-born daughter to be buried with him.
No one knew that one of them was determined to reclaim the empire left behind by her poisoned father, while the other carried books on medicine, farming, and commerce and planned to help this dragon win the whole world.
"You train the troops. I'll provide for you."
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When twenty thousand troops ran out of food, she calculated the twelve thousand taels that had been embezzled in a single night.
When the enemy surrounded the city, she burned the crops, opened up fields, and sold grain at fair prices, turning the war into a business.
Later, when an assassin's blade was aimed straight at the emperor,
she took the blow for him.
Xiao Dingzhao kept vigil by her side for seven days and seven nights, saying only eight words:
"She is my life. I will protect her myself."
