Shi Youyi was born into nobility. Her mother was the Qinghe Princess, her father the Great General of Zhengyuan, and she was the brightest flower in the capital, well, uh, the most peculiar one...
She'd dare yank a princess's hair, then turn around and compete with a wastrel for the title of top courtesan. Her misdeeds were too numerous to list.
When she came of age to marry, every prominent family in the capital prayed she wouldn't choose them.
The unlucky one Shi Youyi eventually picked was Shen Jiyan, the third son of the Shen family.
The Shen family, who had been quietly watching the drama, were dumbfounded!
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Shen Jiyan was handsome and graceful, gentle as jade. He passed the palace examinations as the top candidate at seventeen. Apart from being a son of a concubine, there was nothing about him people didn't like.
He had planned to marry a gentle, thoughtful woman who would respect his parents.
Instead, an imperial decree forced him to marry Shi Youyi, daughter of the Qinghe Princess, a woman everyone in the capital avoided.
Now that he had married her, and given the influence of her maternal family, he would have to treat her well even if he didn't like her.
Later, he realized he had been wrong, and spectacularly so.
His little wife couldn't go a single day without making trouble.
Forget staying quietly in the inner courtyard; she nearly tore the Shen household apart!
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Shi Youyi got her wish and married the third son of the Shen family, the one she'd fallen for at first sight.
Before she could even savor the thought of their scandalous married life, she realized Shen Jiyan was polite but distant, and the two of them had none of the sweetness of newlyweds.
What's more, she heard her husband had once been close to getting engaged to a childhood friend. If she hadn't stolen the match, the two of them might already have been a couple.
Shi Youyi: I hear my husband doesn't like me?
No matter. She has plenty of tricks and plenty of energy~
A spirited little firecracker and her patient husband
This blurb was written at knifepoint. It'll be polished later, but the core characterizations won't change.
Theme: Treat others with kindness
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