Destined to My Prince's Embrace

Gu Xiyuan is married to the King of Yan. She bought the position with ten thousand taels of gold offered as her dowry, and Xiao Xuan, who has a reputation at court for being cold, took the deal. She holds the trade routes now and works through her plans one step at a time. The gold was what she had left. Two hundred thousand taels of silver went earlier, all of her private fortune, to her cousin Xiao Jinchen for disaster relief while he was Crown Prince, in return for his word that she would be his one and only Crown Princess. He came back from it with his standing made. He and her father then settled between them that her county-lord title and the Crown Princess position would go to her half-sister, the daughter of her father's concubine. Gu Xiyuan stopped being the eldest daughter who took things quietly. She emptied the marquis household of anything worth carrying out, ended it with Xiao Jinchen, and got her mother out of the marriage. She has said that everyone who wronged her will spend the rest of their lives regretting it.