Mistakenly Married to the Grand Secretary: The Foolish Beauty Gets Under His Skin Every Day

The ruthless, calculating chief councilor only wanted to keep a silly bird for amusement. Who could have guessed that the bird would fake her death and escape her gilded cage, driving the haughty powerbroker into a jealous frenzy as he chased his wife across a thousand miles!

Lu Chenyuan, the chief councilor of the realm, was cold and unfeeling. Every official at court was a piece on his chessboard. To consolidate his power, he had no choice but to marry the legitimate daughter of the Duke Who Guards the State, a brilliant woman rumored to be almost supernatural in her cleverness.

On their wedding night, he lifted her veil and sneered when he discovered that the bride was Lin Wanyin, a concubine-born daughter sent in her place.

This woman was uneducated, timid as a mouse, and loved to eat and sleep. While he reviewed official documents, she brought him sickeningly sweet soup and spilled it over classified military intelligence. On stormy nights, she clung to him like an octopus and refused to let go. She even tugged at his court robes and gazed up at him, begging him to buy candied hawthorn skewers from the corner of the street.

Lu Chenyuan’s murderous instincts stirred. He only had to wait for the Duke’s household to fall, then he would poison the fool with a cup of wine.

But when that day finally came, his hand, which had always struck without mercy, trembled for the first time as he held the poison. He consoled himself: Keeping a chattering little bird in the inner quarters might be amusing. If he let her go, that foolish woman would be devoured alive in a single day.