Li Meng, the capital’s number-one little troublemaker, spends her days dressing as a man and strutting about town with her girlfriends.
One day, she heard that her childhood friend Li Yue was being forced to marry the seventy-year-old Earl Wang. She rushed to the bridal sedan and snatched her friend away. When Earl Wang tried to fight back, she flashed her brother’s heir-apparent token, and everyone present dropped to their knees.
The bride was rescued, but her parents were about to return to the residence, and her disguise as the heir-apparent was bound to be exposed.
What could she do? Someone came up with a great idea.
Li Meng agreed at once: she would marry all her girlfriends! After all, if the “heir-apparent” was going to marry one, she might as well marry the whole lot!
And so:
Zhao Xiaotong, the gluttonous female general: “I’ll marry you!”
Sun Wanqing, the daughter of the head of the horse bureau: “Me too!”
Lin Xuerou, a wealthy merchant’s daughter: “Count me in!”
…Even Xue’er, her personal maid, was forcibly stuffed into a bridal sedan.
Overnight, eight “consorts of the heir-apparent” appeared in the Prince of Qin’s household.
The real heir-apparent, Li Zhao, returned from the frontier to find his home occupied by his younger sister. When he tried to enter, they beat him up and threw him out as an impostor. When he tried to climb over the wall, they surrounded him and beat him as a would-be rapist. By the time he finally proved his identity, his eight “wives” had already started calling him “husband.”
Li Zhao: I must have owed her eight million taels in my last life.
But that was only the beginning. The daily antics of his eight wives could turn the entire residence upside down: competing over who could eat the most, who had the biggest dowry, who was best at martial arts, and who would give the heir-apparent a child first… The mighty general next door tried to stir up trouble, only for the glutton squad to eat his granary empty and the sharp-tongued queen to make his assassins cry.
If life feels dull, just see how Li Meng managed to get herself married, land her brother in trouble, and make the whole capital laugh in a single morning.
Very novel and beautiful. I like it. Come on and update soon.