My Husband Took a Concubine, So I Remarried and Won the Emperor’s Favor

[She has only ever been with women; the second male lead rises to the top; the emperor becomes the third party for love] Qin Man spent her five years' worth of dowry helping her husband, Lu Wenyuan, rise to a fourth-rank official post. In return, she got lies and betrayal. At a palace banquet, his cousin knelt before him, soaked to the skin, begging to be taken as a concubine. He even pressured Qin Man to be magnanimous. With her heart dead, Qin Man agreed to let them be together. But the young emperor seated on the throne dropped a bombshell: “You let that child live as an illegitimate son for five years. Why are you suddenly being so stingy now?” A shocking deception was laid bare: all that supposed devotion had merely paved the way for the illegitimate son, and the man she thought was a good husband had already secretly fathered a child with his cousin. Qin Man smashed up the bridal chamber and reported her uncle to the clan, tearing away every last scrap of the Lu family's cover-up. When her elder brother returned victorious, she wore the golden crown bestowed on her by the emperor and sent the faithless man to his ruin in front of all the officials. The scoundrel begged for forgiveness. She slapped down the evidence of the drug meant to make her infertile. “Shall we start the reckoning with the bowl of medicine your mother used to poison me?” And the ruler of all under heaven, who had once ridden through the night for her and buried a secret of earth-shaking proportions, leaned close to her when they were alone and sighed, “Your revenge is over... I’ve waited long enough.” The day Xiao Zhi seized the throne by killing the emperor was the very day she married another man. He cast his precious pearl aside, and that man did not know how to cherish it. So now he would take her back with his own hands and offer her the highest glory. Qin Man once thought love was a cage. Only later did she learn that true devotion could shatter every cage.