After Breaking Off the Engagement, the Book's First-Rank Scholar Comes Begging to Marry Me

[Clear-headed, money-loving, willful noble lady × transmigrated-into-a-book, max-level green-tea Chief Minister, devoted couple + sweet and satisfying + second male lead takes the crown]

Song Mingyan, daughter of the Minister of Revenue, is the most spoiled noblewoman in all of Dayong. But at her coming-of-age ceremony, her childhood sweetheart, top-ranked palace graduate Pei Yan'an, publicly breaks off their engagement.

“I’ve only ever thought of you as a little sister. Qinghe is the one I’ll love for the rest of my life.”

The whole capital is waiting to laugh at Song Mingyan.

But on the very day the engagement is called off, Yan Ci, the ruthless and decisive Chief Minister who’ll slap even a passing dog twice, shows up at the Song residence with a lavish bridal procession stretching ten miles.

Everyone says Chief Minister Yan is cruel and vicious, and that he must have married Song Mingyan just to torment her.

What they don’t know is that Yan Ci transmigrated into a book.

Every day, he sneers at the original novel’s bullet comments floating through his mind.

Bullet comment: [High drama ahead! The original heroine, Song Mingyan, will dig out her kidneys and heart for Pei Yan'an and suffer terribly!]

Yan Ci kicks over a table. “This wretched fate is so bad even a dog wouldn’t touch it!”

To keep his delicate wife from suffering the same fate, Chief Minister Yan goes all out to intercept her destined encounters and protect her.

Later, Pei Yan'an sees Song Mingyan crowned with the pearl headdress of a First-Rank Imperial Lady, surrounded by admirers. Green with jealousy, he tries to win her back. “Mingyan, I regret it...”

Before he can finish, Yan Ci slices off his topknot with a single stroke, smiling grimly. “My wife is too delicate to fend for herself. If you dare frighten her again, I’ll wipe out your entire clan.”