Mind-reading + marriage to bring good fortune + marriage first, love later + absurd comedy + the leads trade barbs + unhinged antics + a drama-loving couple showing off their acting skills
Xiao Chenghan, the only son of the Marquis of Loyalty and Courage, is known throughout the capital as the cold-faced King of Hell. A brilliant young man with a string of military victories to his name, he suddenly falls into a coma after being cursed by a villain. To preserve the family’s glory, the marquis’s household consults a revered monk, checks birth charts, and carefully chooses Shen Qingci, the legitimate daughter of the Shen family. Raised harshly by her concubine stepmother and forced to tread carefully in the Shen household, she is to marry Xiao Chenghan in the hope that the good fortune of the wedding will restore his life force.
Looking at the marriage contract the marquis’s household has sent over, offering “a monthly salary of one hundred taels plus the allowances of the marquis’s legitimate daughter-in-law,” Shen Qingci struggles to contain her racing heart. Her husband is unconscious but may soon awaken, and she’s marrying into the powerful Marquis of Loyalty and Courage’s household. Isn’t this a winning life where she can lie flat and enjoy all the riches she wants?
But she has no idea that the unconscious Xiao Chenghan can hear every thought in her head!
“The young marquis is so breathtakingly handsome. Not a single man in the capital can match his bearing!”
[Lying there with no color in his face and blue lips, he looks like an old sick crane whose soul has been sucked out. He can’t even move a finger...]
Xiao Chenghan: ???
“People say the marquis is twenty-five, in the prime of his life. He looks as handsome as an eighteen-year-old!”
[Why is my life so miserable! I’ve just turned twenty, and now I have to marry a sickly man who’s unconscious from a curse. The eighty-year-old granny next door can still go to the temple fair, while he’s become a living corpse at twenty-five. This marriage is worse than becoming a widow!]
After listening for less than half an incense stick’s worth of time, Xiao Chenghan is so furious that he spits out a mouthful of black blood...
