[Two Powerful Leads] [One-on-One Romance] [No System, Yet Invincible] [Read three chapters, no regrets. Read ten, and you'll be rolling in it!]
Shui Miaomiao was considered a good-for-nothing by everyone in the Shui family.
While everyone waited to see the Third Prince break off their engagement, she packed her bags overnight and memorized a saying:
"Thirty years the river runs high, thirty years the banks stand tall. Don't look down on a poor young girl!"
But the next day, Third Prince Yun Zhao arrived at her door with enough goods to fill an entire street.
Shui Miaomiao: "This much compensation for breaking off the engagement?"
Yun Zhao: "It's the betrothal gifts."
As it turned out, Yun Zhao needed a consort with no cultivation, no connections, and a quiet, undemanding nature to shield him from a political marriage to the Holy Maiden of the Upper Sect.
One needed a place to stay, the other needed a shield.
They hit it off at once.
Yun Zhao promised, "As long as you behave and play the part of a prince's consort, I'll ensure you live in wealth and comfort for the rest of your life."
Shui Miaomiao happily agreed.
Being kept like a canary wasn't so bad, right?
He was offering way too much!
But Yun Zhao soon realized there was something off about this canary.
A peerless prodigy?
She subdued him with one palm strike.
The Holy Maiden of the Upper Sect?
She drove her back with a single sword strike.
The divine patterns of the myriad heavens?
All became her nourishment!
Later, the Shui family regretted their actions and begged her to return. The Holy Maiden of the Upper Sect knelt and conceded defeat. All across the Qingxuan Continent, people were saying:
The Third Prince had a discerning eye. He'd married the future empress early.
Only Yun Zhao stared at his completely empty treasury and fell silent.
"All I wanted was to keep a canary."
Shui Miaomiao looked up innocently. "So, do you regret it now?"
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