Returning from Exile to Become Empress

Zhong Shuyao transmigrates as the granddaughter of the Chancellor, but unfortunately, she's been cast out by her family. She also has a Crown Prince for a husband, but unfortunately, he's been deposed and exiled to Lizhou. The one who petitioned to depose the Crown Prince was none other than the current Chancellor. Zhong Shuyao: ...Thanks for the offer. I'm out! To save her own skin, Zhong Shuyao nervously goes to see the peerlessly elegant Crown Prince: "C-could we make a deal? I know Your Highness detests me, so how about we just be married in name only? I'm useful. I can farm!" Ji Yue, smiling warmly with a sinister look in his eyes: ??? Once they arrive in impoverished Lizhou, Zhong Shuyao, an agricultural science student, finally gets to put her knowledge to use: Want to learn about breeding better crops with Mendelian genetics and crossbreeding? She cultivates new-flavored fruits through grafting, and raises fish in rice paddies. Great aristocratic families rush to buy her produce, while traveling scholars and poets sing its praises. Zhong Shuyao thrives in her career while playing the role of a couple with Ji Yue. That is, until Ji Yue brings her the empress's ceremonial robes and phoenix crown. Zhong Shuyao is stunned. "Weren't we supposed to be a couple in name only, then divorce once the agreement expired?" The handsome young man smiles. "Divorce? Has Your Majesty the Empress forgotten something?" * Ji Yue never imagined that his father, whom he had always respected, would disregard their father-son bond entirely, strip him of his position as Crown Prince out of suspicion, and heartlessly exile him to Lizhou, determined to take his life. He never imagined that, during those dark, sunless days, someone would come carrying the warmth of spring and let him glimpse the light of day. He was willing to crawl at the feet of that warm sunlight and lose himself in her. A seemingly gentle and refined, inwardly sinister and ruthless male lead x a sunny, earnest, slightly clueless female lead Theme: Play the hand you're dealt well, and turn things around even when all hope seems lost