After Marrying into Three Great Houses, the Lowly Concubine Takes the Throne

[This story has no logic] [Forced possession and a battle of male suitors, with enough ex-husbands to fill a mahjong table.] [The heroine slowly cultivates her ambition and climbs her way to the top.] Yan Niang originally planned to spend her whole life as a concubine. Then one day, she learned that she was the wicked supporting female character in a novel, and the male lead’s concubine. In the future, she would become pregnant and give birth to a son, only to be strangled before she even left the delivery room. Yan Niang resolved to stay far away from the male and female leads. Her first marriage after leaving the top scholar, the male lead, was to a widowed successor of the Imperial College Director. Later, caught in political infighting and demoted to Lingnan, he painfully divorced her to give her a better future. The second time she married, a dashing young general welcomed her in an eight-carriage bridal procession and made her his principal wife. Later, as war raged, he went off to battle and disappeared in the fighting. The third time she married, a young and noble Grand Secretary drew her into his arms. Later, Yan Niang could no longer bear his constant suspicion and left him. When they met again, the top scholar, the Imperial College Director, the general, and the Grand Secretary were all trading insults and fighting each other to the death. Only then did they realize Yan Niang had married three times and become empress. Silk brocade shaped her into a gentle, tender beauty; fine jade forged her into a woman with a backbone.