After her mother died mysteriously, seven-year-old Su Tang witnessed her stepmother sink her maid into a well.
In order to survive, she pretended to be crazy and stupid for ten years.
When others scolded her for being stupid and useless, she would drool and giggle; when her stepmother embezzled her mother's dowry, she would pretend that she couldn't even count the money.
Until her stepsister disliked Prince Ning's crippled legs and terminal illness, Su Tang was forced to marry him.
On the night of the wedding, Yan Cizhou sat in a wheelchair and asked warmly: "Is the princess literate?"
Su Tang shook his head: "I don't know."
He casually opened a military book that was upside down: "Then why does the princess keep staring at my king's book?"
Su Tang: "..."
This sick man doesn't seem to be easy to deceive.
During the day, she was a silly little concubine chasing the prince to beg for sweets; late at night, she climbed over the wall to pick locks and check accounts, just to find out the real culprit who killed her mother.
But when she sneaked into the secret room of the palace, she saw Prince Ning, who should have been unable to stand, standing upright under the candlelight, holding the evidence she had been looking for for many years in his hand.
Yan Cizhou smiled gently: "Isn't the princess illiterate?"
Su Tang put away his silly smile and pulled out the short blade from his sleeve: "I only recognize the lives owed to me in the account book."
From then on, the couple broke up with each other.
She pretended to be stupid, and he pretended not to see; he pretended to be sick, and she took the token; she climbed over the wall in the middle of the night, and he laid cushions under the wall in advance.
Everyone thought that Prince Ning had married a useless and stupid concubine.
Until the day of the palace coup, Su Tang took charge of the secret guard and sealed the palace gate with his own hands.
Someone asked in horror: "You actually handed over military power to a fool?"
Yan Cizhou slowly wiped the blood from her face.
"She was just playing dumb."
"But this king is really fascinated by her and loses consciousness."
