Qin Zhao has lost her memory. When she wakes, she has become Qin Zaozao, a bride brought into the Xie family to bring good fortune to her husband, and the wife of the jade-like young man rumored to be the most talented and handsome man in the world.
Xie Linyuan, courtesy name Zimei, has been frail and sickly since childhood, bedridden for years. On the eve of his twentieth birthday, he has left his final instructions and is peacefully waiting to die. Then his bride arrives to bring him good fortune, and somehow brings him back to life?
His mother is delighted. “The master said Zaozao has an extraordinarily noble fate. My son will live to a hundred if he marries her!”
An extraordinarily noble fate?
Xie Linyuan doesn’t believe it. How could a mere orphan be noble? Even if she is clever, he can allow her to disguise herself as a man and enter government service. So what if she rises from county magistrate to prefect? If he wishes…
Yet when he places first in all six imperial examinations and becomes famous throughout the land, the familiar face seated high on the throne in the palace, wearing a jade crown, finally leaves him rattled and shaken:
The late emperor’s only legitimate son, raised by his own hand and enthroned at eighteen, once suspected of being a puppet emperor, then later responsible for purging half the court in a single stroke: Emperor Yuanwu Qin Zhao. Could she really be his Zaozao?
****The male lead really does have to win back his wife the hard way, and the second male lead really does end up with her****
The heroine is eighteen when she first appears and has already ascended the throne. She is a native of this world, a political mastermind, and will return to wearing women’s clothes later on.
P.S. The author’s intelligence is limited, so although this has court intrigue and mystery-solving, the characters’ IQ is no higher than the author’s, whose IQ is lower than the readers’. Please bear with me, everyone~
