After Marrying a Spoiled Rich Playboy for the Second Time, I Teamed Up with My Ex
After three years in the imperial palace, Bai Wanyin has survived by pretending to be crazy and foolish: she makes the empress dowager faint by having cricket fights in the imperial garden, and smokes out the memorials by roasting sweet potatoes in the imperial study. Everyone calls her the “Calamity Consort.” Emperor Xiao Che coos, “Be good, Yinyin,” while secretly scheming to strip her father of his military power. Bai Wanyin’s heart turns to ice. She spends the night writing an illustrated “Treatise on Prolonged War and Negotiating a Divorce,” but Xiao Che tears it to pieces, his eyes red. “Don’t even think about it!”
The next day, news spreads through the capital that the Noble Consort has died. A widow in the suburbs, “Bai Xiaohua,” promptly marries again. Her match is the capital’s number-one playboy, Xie Yungui, who spends his days walking birds, fighting crickets, and throwing money around. Bai Xiaohua makes her decision: he’s the one! He seems dim-witted, has plenty of money, and is safe!
Married life is a chaotic mess:
“Husband, does the pattern on the bottom of this cricket jar look like a secret message from an enemy state?”
“My lady, that’s the oil paper they wrapped the flatbreads in!”
“Husband, why is Sun Tzu’s Art of War hidden beneath the cover of this erotic album?”
“Shh! It’ll give me an excuse when Father beats me!”
She thinks he’s a genuine fool, while he thinks she’s an amusing little widow. They put on an act for each other and cover for one another, trading ridiculous jabs as affection quietly blossoms. Until one day, Emperor Xiao Che goes undercover to investigate a case and sees his lively former consort beneath a tree, ordering her “useless” husband to climb up and pick fruit.
“My consort! You faked your death just to marry this good-for-nothing?!” Xiao Che roars.
Xie Yungui’s expression changes in an instant. He wraps an arm around Bai Xiaohua’s waist, his full presence on display. “Your Majesty, my ‘good-for-nothing’ side is only for my wife to see.”
Caught between two powerful men, Bai Wanyin goes from dying of embarrassment to watching the drama unfold. What shocks her even more is that both men pull out tiger tallies at the same time!
