Yun Qiao transmigrates into a book, becoming the younger sister of Yun Zhang, a recluse known as a strategist on par with Zhuge Liang, whom the villainous Second Prince invites out of seclusion with three visits to his thatched cottage.
According to the original novel's plot, she will marry the Second Prince and, after his failed bid for the throne, share her brother's fate: both of them will be executed.
The day she arrives is the eve of her wedding.
Yun Qiao decides to run away from the marriage. She climbs out a window in the middle of the night, only to unexpectedly run into the Seventh Prince, Xiao Yun, the true Son of Heaven who will later ascend the throne in the original novel.
The man is indeed as handsome and dashing, as distinguished in bearing, as the novel described.
Confronted with that peerlessly handsome face, Yun Qiao blurts out, as if bewitched:
“My brother, Yun Zhang, is a strategist known to be on a par with Zhuge Liang. Beautiful women are easy to find, but a brilliant talent is hard to come by. If Your Highness is willing to marry me, I can bring my brother over from the Second Prince's side to serve as your adviser.”
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After a great deal of effort, Yun Qiao finally manages to poach her own brother from the Second Prince.
She had assumed that a man whom the villain had courted with three visits to his thatched cottage must be a peerless genius who could control events from behind the scenes. As long as she helped him choose the right master, she could lie flat in peace.
That is, until she sees with her own eyes the “grand plan to strengthen the nation” her brother presents to Xiao Yun.
Yun Qiao: ???
I went to all that trouble to find myself a husband, and now you're going to ruin his entire empire...!
Author, come out here! You call this guy a sleeping dragon? He's more like a sleeping worm!
Yun Qiao: Bro, why don't you put that down... Let me do it, let me!
To protect her future husband's ambitions... and her own happy life, Yun Qiao tearfully begins a new round of maneuvering. At last, she gets her brother installed in a prestigious, respectable, lofty post with absolutely no real power.
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Xiao Yun knows that Yun Zhang is an idiot with a reputation he doesn't deserve.
But his sister isn't.
Watching Yun Qiao bustle around, frantically acting, he finds her utterly adorable.
There's only one thing this woman got wrong.
Beautiful women are easy to find, and brilliant talents aren't hard to come by, either.
Only Yun Qiao is hard to find.
*Both leads have only ever loved each other
*The older brother is a good man who treats the female lead very, very well
*The male lead gets a sweet romance, the female lead drives the plot, and the brother takes the comedic route
Theme: It's better to rely on yourself than on others
