Chapter 10 — Sister Married to the Emperor, Forcing Me to Marry a Playboy, No One Knows He is a Hidden Dragon

It's only been ten days, but it no longer looks like a living person. She stared into the mirror for a long time. Then reach out and slowly pull down the last brooch on your head. Her hair was down and messy, covering her shoulders. She started pulling out her hair. When she pulled out the seventh strand, she burst out laughing. Laughing until tears flowed.

“No way…”

“I am the best daughter of the Tham family…”

“On what basis… On what basis is it her…”

The maid was so scared that she didn't dare to come closer, so she cowered at the door and peeked. Tham Chieu Hoa grabbed the bronze mirror and threw it fiercely to the ground. The bronze mirror bounced twice, not breaking - just deflected. She grabbed the lipstick box, the jewelry box, and the bronze lamp on the dressing table, smashing each item down.

“She is nothing more than a changer—”

“She took my life—”

“That Tan Dien Chi should have been mine—General Tran Bac should have been mine—the title of blessed star should have been mine—”

She finished smashing everything she could smash, then sat paralyzed in the middle of the ground and debris, her whole body trembling. The wind outside the window blew in, blowing her scattered hair away, a few strands of hair sticking to her face. Her fingernails were broken three times, and her fingertips were covered in blood.

“Tham Uan Ninh…”

She gritted her teeth, forcing those three words out from deep in her throat.

“I won't let you win…”

The decree abolishing Tham Chieu Hoa was issued on the thirtieth day after she was detained. The empress's edict used three hundred words, detailing each of her crimes in turn—colluding with criminals, cutting off military provisions, corrupting foreign enemies, and deceiving superiors. Tham Chieu Hoa transformed from Queen to commoner. Moved out of Phuong Nghi Palace and brought into the cold palace. That same day, Lieu Oan was appointed Queen. No one at court objected. When the news reached the border, I was watching Tan Dien Chi train his troops. On the battlefield, dust and dirt were flying, and the cavalry was arrayed like a forest. Tan Dien Chi stood on a high platform, his silver armor reflecting light, his voice sounding like thunder—

“All troops listen to orders—”

Now he no longer needs to continue pretending to be a reformer. Three years of border business, 100,000 iron cavalry in hand, the taxes of the five northern cities all went into the army, the people admired and supported him, and the generals and soldiers were willing to die for him. He is the true King of the North. But on the other side of the capital, Co Hanh's taboo towards him also became deeper and deeper. After abolishing Tham Chieu Hoa, Co Hanh consecutively issued three secret decrees—The first, stripped Tan Dien Chi of three parts of his military power. The second way is to send the general under Tan Dien Chi back to the capital to "resign". The third way is to cut off the trade route between An Bac Thanh and Trung Nguyen. Each knife, each knife, is fatal. Tan Dien Chi looked at those three secret signs, with no expression on his face. He threw the honey thread into the fire basin, the fire licked the yellow silk, curled up, burned black, and turned into ashes.

“He wants to take away my rights.”

“He is afraid of me.”

“He should be afraid of you.”

Tan Dien Chi turned his head to look at me. The firelight in the basin shone on his face, sometimes bright and sometimes dark.

“Uan Ninh.”

“If I do something—something I can't turn back from.”

I looked into his eyes. In those eyes there was ambition, determination, and also something that had been suppressed for many years, and was finally about to break through.

“She followed me Are not?"

I walked up to him, tiptoed, and brushed away a piece of ash stuck to his silver armor.

"Tan Dien Chi, since the day I married you, I have never thought about turning back."

His throat moved slightly. Then he reached out and pulled me into his arms. The silver armor is cold, causing my collarbone to ache. But his heartbeat—thump-thump-thump—was as fast as the sound of a war drum. His chin rested on the top of my head.

“Then don't turn back anymore.”

Three days later, Tan Dien Chi issued a document. In the Hich Van, he listed Co Hanh's seven major crimes since he ascended the throne - serving a favored concubine and destroying his wife, using false flattery, collecting high taxes, persecuting public officials, neglecting the government, being humiliated by foreigners without defending him, and destroying his loyalty. Hich literature spread throughout the world. After that, 100,000 iron cavalry men descended. The capital was shocked. When Co Hanh sat on the dragon's chair to receive the military notice, the lipstick pen in his hand fell onto the medal, and a large piece of red ink spread out, like blood.

“Tan Dien Chi… Tan Dien Chi has betrayed?!”

“Is he crazy?!”

The civil and military officials knelt under the palace, no one said a word.