Before lifting her wedding veil, she had already set the overall strategy. By taking a step back to help the woman blocking her bridal sedan, she turned the entire city's mockery into the prologue of a court alliance. While the public only saw her as a status-seeking decorative vase, Iris had long been laying out her plans. In the power-turbulent capital, she and Liam jointly controlled the political situation — this political marriage eventually became an unshakable ironclad alliance.