My Wife Is So Charming

[Alternate World + Devoted Couple + Sweet Romance + Ensemble Cast]

The governor of Qingzhou, Xu Da, had one daughter, named Miaomiao. She read the Book of Songs at three, learned the Book of Documents at five, and had mastered the four arts of the zither, chess, calligraphy, and painting by the age of eight or nine. People said of the Xu family’s daughter, “Her beauty is said to be peerless, and her talent lives up to the rumors.” In the fifth year of Jian'an under the Northern Wei, imperial power had waned and warlords carved up the land, waging war and annexing one another’s territories. Qingzhou was weak, so to spare its people from slaughter, Governor Xu Da married his daughter to Liu Heng, the governor of Jizhou.

At first, Liu Heng thought, “I’m only marrying the Xu girl to put Xu Da’s suspicions to rest. She may be graceful and lovely, but she always looks sorrowful and frail. She’s not the right match for me. I’ll marry her and keep her around for now, then find a chance to divorce her later.”

Later, in their fragrant bed curtains, with her soft and warm in his arms, she called sweetly, “Husband, my feet are cold.” He warmed them with his hands.

Later still, after he had swept aside the rival lords and unified the realm, he held her slender hand and whispered in her ear, “Since Miaomiao doesn’t want to be empress, how about Miaomiao becomes emperor, and I’ll be your empress?”

Xu Miaomiao: ...What a lunatic.