Everyone says that the eldest daughter of the Suning Marquis's family has the luck of a lifetime, having somehow managed to marry the famous Lord Xie.
So what if Miss Shen is a little beautiful and a little talented?
Her groom is the otherworldly, peerlessly handsome Xie Zhen, known as Xie Yulang!
With the Chenjun Xie clan's distinguished lineage and the Shangshu household's favor at court, how could they compare to a fallen marquis's family? Especially when that family is a bunch of down-and-outs adopted from the clan after the Suning Marquis failed to produce an heir.
It's a real rags-to-riches tale: a sparrow has flown to the treetop, only to be struck by a heavenly golden son-in-law.
The only question is whether the newlywed Madam Xie can handle such an extraordinary stroke of fortune.
A daughter of a humble clan among the great families of the Five Surnames and Seven Houses is bound to be mistreated behind closed doors.
Shen Yiyi only smiles at all the sour gossip.
How could outsiders know that she catered to his tastes, memorized the laws, wrote policy essays, and even helped organize the Ministry of Revenue's ledgers, gradually winning Xie Zhen's favor?
It seems she went a little too far. She only wanted to find herself a powerful backer, but somehow he ended up “taking” her home instead.
Still, she hasn't lost out. She has to get married either way, and every household has its squabbles. She might as well marry a handsome man who keeps himself pure. He'll make the perfect roommate.
But why is married life so different from what she expected?
Xie Zhen fends off her husband's relatives when they give her a hard time. When a rival in love tries to frame her, he turns the tables and gives her a taste of her own medicine. Even her mother-in-law, who should be a thoroughly demanding mistress of a noble household, treats her with absolute kindness because she mistakenly thinks Xie Zhen is gay. Shen Yiyi prepared three hundred and sixty strategies for household intrigue, but now she stands there with her knife in hand, utterly at a loss.
Only one thing seems off:
Her “devoted lover” persona seems to have been exposed.
The problem is, she never made that persona up!
Why does everyone think she's so deeply in love?
Even worse, why has Xie Yulang's own persona fallen apart too?!
In public, he is dignified, composed, and gravely self-possessed. In private, he ruthlessly undermines his rivals and crawls through the shadows. Then, when he returns home at night, he insists on “discussing” things with her. The textbook he uses has more pictures than words, and only two little figures throughout...
Both are each other's first and only. The heroine thinks she's in a marriage-first, love-later story, while the hero has already convinced himself of his own feelings before the wedding and realizes afterward that he needs to win his wife over. The second book after the completed novel "Yulang Always Thinks I'm Secretly in Love with Him".
My ongoing novel "Is the Empress Pretending to Be a Medium Again Today?": Even after transmigrating as a charlatan, you have to love what you do (not really). Come give it a try!
"The Peerless Beauty Loves Only Her Own Face": The heroine is devoted to her own stunning beauty. Building a harem and competing with others are all about securing beauty-enhancing resources. In the end, she even creates an age of prosperity just to leave a “beautiful reputation” in the history books, which are notoriously sparing with words. Please add it to your reading list!
Theme: Those who love themselves are always loved by others.
