Name: The Foolish Prince Returns to the Capital with His Ugly Wife After Disappearing
Author: Mo Cong

Synopsis

Lin Zhi was nearly twenty and still unmarried, simply because she was a famously ugly woman. A fist-sized birthmark on her left cheek stood in the way of her finding a match. She was not only ugly, but had also lost both her parents, and every family seeking a bride was wary of her supposedly hard fate. A perfectly good young woman had been held back like this.

In the Great Liang Dynasty, the law required women who remained unmarried past the age of seventeen to pay a fine. Lin Zhi’s uncle and aunt could no longer afford the yearly penalties. Just as they were discussing how, if all else failed, they would marry her off to the forty-year-old lecher at the village entrance, Lin Zhi brought home a fair, handsome young man. He seemed a little slow in the head, but he was good-looking. An ugly woman and a fool made a fine match, or so they thought. Who could have guessed the man’s identity was a mystery, and that their wedding plans would hit one snag after another? The ugly girl from the Lin family was getting married again, and again, and again!

During the ritual, Xiao Jing'an held Lin Zhi’s hand as they knelt before the late emperor’s mausoleum. “Father, I want two babies. Two.”

He made his wish to the late emperor with a perfectly straight face. Behind him, the Empress Dowager was half amused and half exasperated. “Silly boy, for that you need to pray to the Goddess of Fertility. Your father has nothing to do with sending babies.”

Stats

122Chapters

661Reads · 30 days

138.5kReads · all time

110Shelf adds, last 14 days

8.6Score

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