Favorite Consort, Deposed Empress? I'll Take Your Empire and Marry a Powerful Official

Wei Rong has been empress for three years, and the harem is harmonious while the ministers hold her in high regard.

Then her father dies, and overnight the emperor turns cold and ruthless, favoring his concubine and neglecting his wife.

The Noble Consort throws her weight around, taking both her husband and her power.

Wei Rong finally sees the truth: for the past three years, she has been nothing but a pawn.

As the ministers vie for power, the influential chancellor, long at odds with the Wei family, stops her.

"I secured your uncle the post of Minister of Revenue."

"Your younger brother has risen to the rank of captain in the army."

Wei Rong frowns. "What do you want?"

The chancellor, whose power eclipses all under heaven, smiles faintly. "You."

Later, when a great fire breaks out in the palace, the emperor goes mad clutching Wei Rong's charred remains.

And that powerful chancellor vanishes from the Great Jing Empire without a trace overnight...