After Securing Her Mother’s Divorce, the Discarded Marquis’s Daughter Turns the Imperial Capital Upside Down

Her mother had died in battle, and before her bones had even grown cold, the Marquis father brought his illegitimate daughter into the household.

Her father took her room. "Caiwei was born frail. What's wrong with letting her have your bedroom?"

Her grandmother stewed her mother's warhorse to nourish Nan Caiwei. "Are the living worth less than an animal?"

Her childhood sweetheart, her betrothed, smashed the jade token they'd exchanged for the white lotus. "You only hurt your leg, but Caiwei's heart is wounded!"

"Give it up? Anything this young lady gives up, you'll have to take with your life!" At the martial arts and civil examinations arena, Nan Shengsheng shot three arrows and knocked the hairpin from Nan Caiwei's hair.

Then she exposed the callous faces of everyone in the Marquis household and cut her father's official robes in the street. "My mother could win this marquis title, and I can tear it to shreds!"

When the Marquis family's relatives demanded she have her bones scraped clean to return to the clan, the Third Prince, whose legs were crippled, kicked over his black-iron wheelchair and shielded her behind him.

From then on, the self-made female strategist and the "Lame Prince" became the capital's most unhinged duo.

She went undercover as a courtesan to blow up the black market, while he feigned disability to turn the gambling dens upside down.

When she smashed the Marquis household's plaque, he handed her a hammer; when he stormed the imperial palace to kill the emperor, she blocked the palace gates.

At last, with the new dynasty established, Song Yan knelt on one knee, clutching the tiger tally. "Being empress would be beneath you. How about becoming a female marshal who specializes in beating up foolish emperors?"

Nan Shengsheng raised an eyebrow. "First, cough up the three jars of pear blossom wine you tricked me out of while pretending to be lame!"