[Forced to Marry a Princess from the Start, I Turn Around and Impeach the Matchmaker]
I am the most aggrieved top scorer in history.
On the day the examination results were announced, my childhood sweetheart was waiting for me to marry her. Instead, I received an imperial edict: I was to marry Princess Wanshou.
Chancellor Bai Minzhong chuckled. “A top scorer matched with a princess. What a lovely story!”
I accepted the marriage edict, and with it, my hatred.
On our wedding night, the princess and I slept in separate beds.
At court, I impeached Bai Minzhong year after year for ten years straight.
Everyone laughed at me, saying I was mad to offend a powerful chancellor over a dead woman, Lu Shiniang.
Then, as I coughed up blood and lay dying, the princess, pregnant, said:
“Zheng Hao, I’ve left you an heir. In our next life, you can be the one to beg me.”
Meanwhile, another royal son-in-law, Du Cong, practiced smiling in front of a mirror.
He was going to marry Princess Qiyang. He called it “a good deal.”
In the end, I died with an untarnished reputation, while he lived to become a grandee who served nine reigns.
History asked me: Was it worth it?
I smiled. “At least I never learned to kneel before him.”
[A tale contrasting two male leads] [Upright officialdom vs. corrupt officials] [The princess awakens] [A long road to winning back his wife]
