Transmigrating Female Supreme: The Peerless Husband Depends on Me

In the early spring of Mingxi Kingdom, the air is still chilly.

Su Yue stood on the city wall, the crimson-purple hem of his fourth-rank official uniform rustling in the wind.

She looked at the caravan stretching for miles below, the sound of camel bells and horse hooves interweaving into a prelude to power.

"Sir!" a clerk hurried over, holding up the hem of his official robe. "Minister Li of the Ministry of Revenue has sent another letter, saying he wants to introduce her son to you..."

Su Yue's lips curled slightly, but her gaze remained fixed on the caravan. "Tell Lord Li I'm going to the dock to inspect the cargo." She gently stroked the masonry of the city wall, feeling the rough texture beneath her palms. "Just say... it's His Majesty's order."

There was suddenly a commotion below the city wall.

In the middle of the street, a woman in gorgeous clothes was grabbing the collar of a handsome young man and cursing, "Bitch! How dare you dirty my skirt!" As she said that, she raised her hand and slapped the young man's face. The young man's fair cheek immediately became red and swollen.

The crowd of onlookers pointed and criticized the young man:

"Men nowadays are becoming more and more unruly."

"I heard that Miss Zhang was about to choose a husband, and now it's all over..."

"Serves you right! Men should just behave themselves..."

Su Yue narrowed her eyes.

Such scenes are very common in Mingxi Kingdom - women have been in power for three hundred years, the six ministries in the court are all staffed by female officials, men have been taught "Men's Admonitions" and "Husband's Virtues" since childhood, and even the imperial examinations can only test poetry and songs.

People like those eccentric ones in her house are simply outliers among outliers.

"Your Excellency," the clerk explained, following her gaze, "that she is the legitimate daughter of Minister Zhang of the Ministry of Rites. She just married her thirteenth wife last month."

Su Yue suddenly remembered what Lin Yuxuan said the day before.

The young doctor was lying on the medicine grinder, fiddling with herbs while muttering, "I went to the free clinic today, and there was a young man with wounds all over his wrists... He said his wife complained that his hands were shaking when he served tea." As he spoke, his eyes turned red, and his hands used extra force to prepare the medicine, crushing the Coptis chinensis into pieces.

"Let's go." Su Yue turned and went downstairs, "To the pier."

When the carriage reached the main street, it was suddenly stopped by a group of ceremonial guards.

A woman in brocade clothes sat upright in a sedan chair carried by eight people, surrounded by a dozen men with lowered brows and pleasant looks in front and behind.

The one in the front even knelt down to massage the legs of the person in the sedan chair, and the golden chain tied around his neck rattled.

"She's the daughter of Censor Wang," the driver whispered. "I heard a concubine was beaten to death last month..."

Su Yue clenched the secret letter in her sleeve.

She remembered the anger burning in Gu Qingyan's always cold eyes when he first saw this scene.

How could a man from the North ever suffer such humiliation? That night, an assassin from the Shadow Pavilion "accidentally" ripped through the curtains of the Wang family's carriage, frightening the young lady so much that she wet her pants.

At the dock, female officials from the Ministry of Works were counting the goods.

Seeing Su Yue coming, they all saluted, but their eyes kept glancing behind her - the one accompanying her today was Shen Yunyan.

This taciturn young man was dressed in a dark blue suit with a jade pendant hanging around his waist, making him stand out among the group of timid young attendants.

"Master Su is so lucky." A chubby female official came over, her eyes glued to Shen Yunyan, "A man of such good character and appearance..."

"Master Li." Su Yue stood in front of Shen Yunyan calmly, "This batch of medicinal materials needs to be catalogued separately."

Shen Yunyan suddenly took half a step forward and tapped lightly on the cargo box with his slender fingers.

The female official immediately retracted her half-extended hand and went to flip through the account book with a wry smile.

Su Yue caught a glimpse of her husband's mouth corners slightly raised - this action was exactly the same as when he was in the Yangzhou government.

When I returned home, the lights were already on.

As soon as Su Yue got off the carriage, she heard Lin Yuxuan's crisp laughter coming from the mansion: "Brother Ayan, you lost again!" followed by Gu Qingyan's angry snort.

Turning around the screen wall, I saw a chessboard under the crabapple tree.

Lin Yuxuan was wearing an apricot-colored shirt and was laughing so hard that he fell backwards;

Gu Qingyan, dressed in black as black as ink, was squeezing the chess pieces until they made a creaking sound;

Liang Junze was playing the piano, Mu Feng was making tea, the Shangguan brothers were demonstrating their new sword techniques, and Zhou Ziqian was leaning on the couch eating grapes - when they saw her come back, eight pairs of eyes lit up at the same time.

Such a lively and bright scene is in stark contrast to the depressing atmosphere on the streets during the day.

Late at night, when everyone was asleep, Su Yue was reviewing official documents in his study.

Suddenly, the window frame creaked softly, and a black iron dart was nailed to the table, with a note wrapped around the end of the dart:

"Lord Su, do you think you can get away with rejecting the marriage? There are many more people watching you in the court than you imagine..."

She stared at the candlelight, thinking of the secret report she had seen at the dock today - fighting had broken out again at the border, and the pro-war and pro-peace factions in the court were at loggerheads.

Her husbands, Gu Qingyan's Shadow Pavilion, Lin Yuxuan's medical skills, the Shangguan family's military power... have all become pawns coveted by various forces.

"Yuer?" Liang Junze came in with soothing tea. Seeing her strange expression, he gently pressed his slender fingers on her brow. "But the court..."

Su Yue held his hand and suddenly asked, "If one day I were to go against the rules of Mingxi..."

"Then we're enemies." Gu Qingyan had stood outside the window at some point, the tip of his sword reflecting the cold moonlight. "Men from the Northern Territory are never afraid of trouble."

Lin Yuxuan poked his head out from behind Liang Junze: "I have a new poison called 'Rules Powder'!"

Everyone laughed.

Su Yue looked into their bright eyes and suddenly understood why she wanted to climb up step by step in this vortex of power - she wanted her husbands to be able to laugh freely and live freely like this forever.

The candlelight crackled, casting the shadows of eight people on the wall, interweaving into a shocking picture.

At the grand court meeting three days later, the empress suddenly announced that she would reform the "Men's Commandments".

"I believe that the restrictions on men in the society are too severe, which is detrimental to the harmony of nature." She gently stroked the "Xuan Ji Tu" on the table, her eyes sweeping over the civil and military officials in the court. "From now on, men will be allowed to enter the Imperial College and learn the Six Arts..."

The court was in an uproar.

The old tutor fainted on the spot and was carried out;

The Minister of Rites knelt down and wept bitterly, saying that this would lead to the destruction of the country;

The Minister of War threw his tablet down...

Su Yue stood among the ranks of fourth-rank officials, looking at the cunning light flashing in the empress's eyes, and suddenly understood something.

When leaving the court, the empress deliberately kept her and asked: "Su Qing, do you know why I suddenly..."

"Because Your Majesty received the war report from the northwest." Su Yue said softly, "The barbarian men are brave and good at fighting, and our dynasty..."

"That's right." The empress sneered, "Those old stubborn people only know how to follow the 'Man's Commandments', but they don't know that men on the frontier can't even ride a horse, so how can they defend their country?" She suddenly changed the subject, "I heard... Mr. Gu from Su Qing's mansion is quite good at archery?"

Su Yue's heart skipped a beat.

"The autumn hunt will begin in the royal enclosure in three days." The empress delivered a secret decree with profound meaning, "I want to see the true capabilities of those 'rebellious' husbands you've raised."