Your Majesty, My Cousin Is Utterly Enchanting

Jiang Youjia is the most distinguished person in all of Yongle. The Empress Dowager is her maternal aunt, the current chancellor and imperial tutor is her father, and the emperor is her cousin.

There is no one else in all of Yongle with a more illustrious status than hers.

Since Jiang Youjia was born to the chancellor in his later years, she was granted the title of commandery princess while still young. She is known throughout the realm as the Princess of Yongle.

The princess is beautiful as a goddess, and many have come to ask for her hand because of her looks and exalted status. But Her Highness has turned them all down.

The standards she announced for a husband were utterly outrageous:

First, he must be her equal in status. Second, he must be at least as handsome as her cousin the emperor. Third, he must marry her and her alone.

Once the list was out, many turned away, and couldn't help gossiping behind her back:

Whose family background could match a clan that has served as imperial tutors for generations? The emperor is as handsome as a celestial being, a Pan An of this age. No one can compare. And besides, what family doesn't have a whole crowd of wives and concubines? What's the difference between this and asking a man to give up his manhood?

Everyone shook their heads and refused. The chancellor grew frantic and tried to coax Youjia into changing her mind.

But Jiang Youjia wouldn't budge. She held to her demands until she was seventeen.

Then her cousin came to claim her.

The emperor looked at the suggestive list, pressed his lips together, and climbed into the Princess of Yongle's bed.

Looking at his cousin, her cheeks flushed red, he said gently and elegantly, "Since my little sister looks down on everyone else, and no one in the world is worthy of her, I'll have to ask her to do me the honor of marrying me."

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Yan Shen had known since childhood that his maternal aunt had a daughter as beautiful as a goddess.

His mother told him she was his cousin, and that they were the closest people in the world.

So Yan Shen naturally claimed her as his own.

But one day, when he learned that his uncle was looking for a husband for his precious cousin and planning to marry her off, he couldn't hold back anymore.

He wanted to force her into marriage, but was afraid his cousin wouldn't agree, so he made himself hold back.

Then, when he learned about her list, he cunningly climbed into her bed.

He told her he was willing to be hers alone for the rest of their lives.

He wanted nothing more than to place everything in the world before her:

His empire, his everything.

Extra scene:

On the day Youjia was born, he clamored to have his little sister made a commandery princess.

The Empress Dowager asked with a smile, "What title would you like to give your little sister?"

The young emperor answered without a second thought: "My sister is the treasure of my heart! Call her Yongle! Like me! She's my Yongle!"

[Reader's Guide]

1. 1v1, scheming, alternate universe, slice of life

*Blurb first posted on 2025.12.7, screenshot saved

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