So You're Suspicious by Nature? Then I Won't Be Your Wife

When the imperial court's portraitist came to my home, I slipped him some extra silver and asked him to make me look uglier. The portraitist said, "Then you are certain to be rejected in this round of selection for the Crown Princess." I replied, "That is fine." The Crown Prince, Yan Lin, was suspicious by nature and stubbornly self-righteous. He didn't even trust his own wife. Marrying him would only end with a length of white silk around my neck. A man like that was not worthy of being my husband.

1 After the portraitist put away the painting, he confirmed one last time, "Miss Ning, once this portrait is submitted, it can't be changed." "Have you changed your mind?" I shook my head. "No." The portraitist glanced up at me, but in the end, he said nothing and...