A marriage alliance empress, winning people over with strength

The day my dad stuffed me into the political marriage convoy, he said the Emperor of Dashuo would behead me alive. On the wedding night, the tyrant’s sword did end up pressing against my throat, but I accidentally snapped his sword in half. Xie Jinglan said I was a monster. What a coincidence—when he was nine and a hostage in Dayu, people called him a monster too. Two monsters together? Perfect for smashing the rules of the world into pieces. When my dad came to take me, I plucked three strands of his beautiful beard right there in the hall. When my sister came to seduce my husband, I lifted her with one hand and threw her out the palace gate. When the Empress Dowager tried to get rid of me, I smashed a stone cauldron at her feet. When the court officials pressured him to take a consort, I crushed the marble railing of the Taiji Hall. The whole court instantly changed their faces and knelt down shouting 'Long live the Emperor.' But Xie Jinglan was full of attentiveness and care, asking