After her parents sacrificed their lives, the emperor granted Chu Jinyue the chance to choose a husband in the capital. She chose Zhang Jin'an, the legitimate son of the Marquis of Yongning.
She thought marrying him would let her use his power to protect her younger brother. But three months after their wedding, he still wouldn't even look her in the eye.
Then, as if things weren't bad enough, she was falsely accused of having an affair with a groom. Everyone in the household cursed her as a woman who had betrayed her marriage.
She happened to meet a high monk, who cast a love spell that made Zhang Jin'an devoted to her, but its effects would last only six months.
When she returned home, Zhang Jin'an was indeed no longer cold and distant. He loved her deeply.
She enjoyed his favoritism without a qualm.
But as the spell faded, he called her scheming and greedy, and personally made her drink a contraceptive potion.
But it didn't matter. She had already achieved her goal.
So she took the initiative and asked for a divorce, setting him free.
When she returned from three years at the border, she thought he must have married the woman he loved long ago.
But when she began choosing allies to overthrow the court,
The ever-composed and proper Minister of Personnel unexpectedly climbed over her wall in the dead of night.
“Whether as your political ally or your husband, I must be the only one you choose!”
By day, he pretended to be calm. By night, he clung to her, demanding she make their relationship official.
They only managed to sleep once the sky began to brighten, and her body couldn't take it for much longer.
She called her younger brother to guard the house.
Zhang Jin'an then summoned every minister she wanted to meet to his own residence.
She slapped him, but he caught her hand and suddenly slapped himself instead.
“Why should Madam have to do it herself?”
Theme: Sincerity for sincerity
