Buried Alive by My Trash Husband, I Turned Around and Seized the Emperor’s Heart and Phoenix Throne

[Palace Intrigue, Satisfying Revenge] [Not a Clean Romance] [Exclusive Devotion Later On] [Clear-Eyed Heroine]

Everyone in the capital says Lord Gu loves his wife more than any man alive.

Xu Qingzhi is his long-suffering wife, a country orphan who believes her husband is her whole world.

Everyone is waiting for Gu Beichen to divorce his useless wife, including Xu Qingzhi herself. She is waiting for the divorce papers, too.

Then one day, she "accidentally" catches her husband having an affair with a princess.

The haughty princess says, "Only the dead can keep a secret. Kill her, and I'll get you promoted!"

Her husband says, "Qingzhi, a day as husband and wife means a hundred days of affection. Do this one last thing for me, for the sake of my career!"

Who says she's useless?

Look, hasn't she become a stepping stone on his road to success?

Her scumbag husband buries her alive with his own hands, but the King of Hell refuses to take her!

The heaviest rain in three years lets her claw her way out of hell!

Xu Qingzhi finally sees clearly: true love lasts for a moment, but power lasts a lifetime!

So she sets her sights on the most exalted man in the land, the Son of Heaven himself.

If she is going to do this, then she will become the most exalted woman in the world!

She will be empress, then empress dowager!

From now on, men and women alike will be stepping stones on her climb to the top.

But gradually, things start getting more and more strange.

Her scumbag husband is under her heel, yet clings to her leg and refuses to let go?

The women in the harem stop competing for the emperor's favor and keep coming to her instead.

And the emperor's gaze grows more and more unsettling, as if he wants to devour her!