In the year when the prince was deposed and relegated to the cold palace, Xu Wanci was ordered to hand over a letter of divorce and wrote four words on the back corner of the paper: May your highness be in peace.
After leaving the East Palace, she was hastily married to Guo Tingyan, a young lady from a poor family, thinking that from then on she would just be a law-abiding wife of a powerful prime minister.
When the new emperor ascended the throne, she became the "former fiancée and current wife of the powerful prime minister", and an old divorce letter was dug out again. In the court, the new emperor owed her a marriage contract, and the powerful minister used her to withstand the storm; inside and outside the palace, she relied on an account book to reveal the salt case and the military pay case bit by bit.
In order to protect the Xu family and the Guo family, she was willing to plead guilty on her husband's behalf, be expelled from the house, fake her own death, and go to the border town to become "Mrs. Xu" whom no one knew. When the situation was settled again and the truth came to light, she returned to Beijing with the letter of annulment and the statement of self-defense, letting the emperor and the powerful prime minister finish the old chess game that had been delayed for many years. In order to protect the Xu family and the Guo family, she was willing to plead guilty on her husband's behalf, be expelled from the house, and fake her death. When the situation was settled again, she came back with the divorce document to settle the old debt.
Purpose: Preserve yourself in the chess game of power