[Female-Oriented Story + Ten Heroines Dream + Male Lead Transmigrates + Court Intrigue]
A genuinely talented young lady, skilled in both letters and martial arts, x a fake wastrel who is hopelessly unlearned
In the fifth year of Jing’an, Su Jingchu, eldest son of the Su family, fell in battle in the northwest during the campaign to defend the north. His younger sister, Su Ningchu, later returned to the capital.
Everyone in the capital believed the Su family had a frail young lady who never left her home.
At least, Shen Yan did.
When the two were first betrothed,
he had even been relieved, thinking she would surely be a gentle and refined woman, nothing like his own arrogant and domineering sister-in-law.
Only after she entered his household did he realize just how wrong he had been.
He went boating with friends, and she rolled up her sleeves and dabbed at her tears.
He sneaked off to a gambling den, and she wept a flood of tears.
He treated money like dirt, and she cried that her life was so hard.
Shen Yan rubbed his forehead helplessly. “What do you want me to do?”
Su Ningchu merely smiled.
“Pass the imperial exams and earn a title.”
Shen Yan gazed helplessly at the sky.
“I don’t know a single one of the thirty-six martial arts. What do you expect me to do?”
Su Ningchu only smiled and said nothing.
From then on, he studied hard, rose to the rank of chancellor, and was ennobled. At last, she smiled.
Everyone said Shen Yan’s wife was gentle and frail.
Then, one day, the city fell, and Su Ningchu stood atop the city wall.
Shen Yan was stunned.
“Wait, my lady, you have a lot of secret identities.”
Su Ningchu often had the same dream.
In it, she had just returned to the capital.
Her family arranged for her to marry a wastrel.
With a little clever maneuvering, she instead married the heir of the Pei family.
But she never imagined he had a beloved woman he could never have.
They were married for five years and never consummated their marriage.
When the city fell, she died a violent death.
When she awoke from the dream, she smiled.
How could she possibly be that foolish?
She might as well play along.
