We Humbly Invite Great-Aunt to Marry

A sweet, romance-focused story with lighthearted melodrama, inspired by the Eastern Jin dynasty.

A bold and free-spirited mountain noblewoman with an outrageous number of older generations in her family x a fallen prodigy who schemes, pretends to be disabled, and plays the victim

Meng Chan: This auntie never compromises. If anyone schemes against me or mine, I'll expose every last one of their secrets!

He Xun: I've spent my whole life walking on thin ice... Hmm? My lady, why did you flip my wheelchair? And the ice on the road too?

I love flowers, I love mountains, and I live as I please.

I've seen every rise and fall, and shared laughter and joy. Life is endless delight.

The Meng clan of Chen Commandery is one of Chengyin's four great aristocratic houses.

When Old Master Meng suddenly dies in his hometown, Lord Xianyang Meng Huai resigns from office to observe the mourning period and sends his grandchildren ahead to Chen Commandery to look after their helpless great-aunt. But at the old residence, the grandchildren find only a mischievous country girl. What great-aunt?

Only when Meng Huai arrives in person and recognizes his younger sister do the grandchildren finally realize that this country girl, about their own age, is the great-aunt famed for her "dignified kindness." Even the current empress must address her as aunt.

After General Meng retired and returned to his hometown, he had a daughter in his old age and spoiled her rotten, letting her grow wild in the countryside, free from the constraints of etiquette and the taint of worldly conventions. Meng Chan picked up some martial arts from her father, then insisted on studying under the female teacher at the Silkworm Goddess Temple. Her education was all over the place, and before long she had become the scourge of Chen Commandery.

Now that her father has passed away, once the funeral is over, she must accompany her eldest brother to the residence in Jianliang, the royal capital. But Meng Chan isn't worried. With her standing as their great-aunt, who would dare make life difficult for her?

Let's see how she throws her weight around among the great aristocratic clans.

He Xun was once as radiant as the moon, but now he is as downcast and desolate as he can be.

The Langhuan He clan is the foremost of the four great aristocratic houses, enjoying incomparable glory. As the son of the current chief minister, He Xun led troops into battle to quell a rebellion and achieved repeated victories. But on his way back to court, villains plotted against him. He fell from his horse and was injured, breaking the bones in his legs and severing the tendons in his feet. From then on, he could no longer walk properly.

The illustrious general became an invalid. It was as if He Xun had died the day before, leaving only the gloomy, irritable, eccentric Second Young Master He. Even his enviable betrothal went awry, ending in a way that was almost an insult.

The He and Meng families have long been on good terms. For the sake of their mutual interests, the heads of both families hope the emperor will arrange a marriage. But they cannot decide which Meng daughter should marry into the He family.

In accordance with Old Master Meng's dying wish, Meng Chan's elder brother is arranging matches for her. There are no suitable men among her peers, and those who are the right age are of the wrong generation. The whole matter is a constant nuisance. When the younger women of the family beg and cry that they don't want to marry that cripple, Meng Chan weighs the pros and cons and volunteers to become betrothed to He Xun. They can marry once her mourning period is over, fulfilling Old Master Meng's concern and preserving the He family's dignity.

When the wedding day comes, Meng Chan sits beneath the hibiscus curtains and realizes she has become a pawn in a plot to murder her husband. He Xun's disability and temperament are also nothing like the rumors claimed: he's not that bad. He's actually worse.

After their thrilling wedding night, He Xun is in a very complicated mood:

His new bride doesn't treat him like an invalid, or even like a person...

Theme: The great figures of history were all so charismatic. Count me in, too.