After Being Married Off by Imperial Decree, She Was Pursued by a Mad Power-Wielding Minister

[Satisfying Face-Slapping] [Male Rivals Compete in a Shura Field] [Strong Female Lead] [Political Schemes and Revenge] [Men Suffer, Women Don't]

On the night her fiancé took a concubine, the powerful Minister of the Court of Judicial Review barged into her chambers.

His lips curled into a sinister smile. "My little mistress, do you still remember me?"

Outside the door, her fiancé in name only spoke coldly. "Chu, don't dream of winning my heart."

Behind the screen, a man murmured with a low, teasing voice, "You heard him, didn't you? He doesn't want you."

But he wanted her.

"Marry him, or please me? Choose for yourself."

Chu Yao was the legitimate daughter of the General of the Nation's Defender. Her father and brothers had been framed by treacherous ministers, bringing disgrace upon her military family. Fortunately, she received an imperial marriage decree through a token left by the late emperor. She endured her stay in the Dou household only to gather evidence and clear her family of its terrible injustice.

The man before her, once the recipient of her kindness and now a figure of immense influence in the capital, was her only support in her desperate circumstances.

Chu Yao risked everything, using herself as a bargaining chip to leverage his power and stir up the tangled political intrigues at court.

One day, in the Golden Throne Hall, he would ask the emperor for an imperial marriage decree in front of the entire court.

Chu was already engaged. How could she be married to her cousin instead? The whole world was in an uproar, and everyone denounced it as a violation of propriety!

To obtain a marriage decree, he knelt outside the hall for three days and three nights.

Under the gaze of the crowd, Chu Yao calmly said, "I won't marry him."