The Scatterbrained Consort Has the Crown Prince Wrapped Around Her Finger

The comic adaptation of this book is now available on Hongguo. If you’re interested, go check out The Prince’s Silly Consort Can’t Keep Her Secret.

Zhu Yunlan, the second legitimate daughter of the Minister of War, is the most scatterbrained girl in the capital.

At eighteen, she still can’t tell salt from sugar. She embroiders ducks instead of mandarin ducks and recites poetry as, “Two pairs of shoes on the ground.” Chasing butterflies, she falls into a pond, fishes out an imperial koi, and wonders whether to braise or steam it.

Her whole family worries she’ll never get married.

Then the imperial decree arrives: she is to marry the Crown Prince.

The entire city starts betting on how long it’ll take the Crown Prince to divorce her: one month pays two to one, three months pays three to one, and lasting a year pays ten to one. Yunlan herself bets a hundred taels: “I’m betting on me!”

Crown Prince Xiao Jingyan coldly refuses the marriage, but the emperor overrules him. On their wedding day, Yunlan oversleeps, her veil falls off during the ceremony, and she eats all the wedding wine and dishes meant for the couple. The furious Crown Prince sleeps in his study, but in the middle of the night she has a nightmare, runs over, and clings to him.

Everyone waits for the Crown Princess to be thrown out.

But who could have guessed? She makes the Crown Prince tea with salt instead of sugar, and he discovers a clue that helps him crack a major case; she rearranges his memorials to the throne, accidentally exposing the Third Prince’s plot; she’s framed and falls into a secret passage, where she happens to find evidence of treason.

Her elder sister envies her and sets traps at every turn. Each time Yunlan “perfectly messes things up,” making the villains suffer the consequences of their own schemes.

The Crown Prince goes from disdain to devotion, and eventually tells everyone, “Who dares lay a hand on my Crown Princess?”

This is the story of a “cute but not sweet” girl (she likes salty food) who’s adorably silly yet unbelievably lucky, conquering the imperial palace, finding love, and ushering in a golden age in her own uniquely scatterbrained way.

Don’t rush, dear readers. Her good fortune is only just beginning.