My Foolish Prince Consort Has Taken Over the Court

Coming soon: After Marrying the Landlord's Foolish Son. Please add it to your collection.

Zhao Yiran was quietly carried into Prince Yong's manor in a small sedan chair through a side gate.

When the curtains opened, she saw the heir to the manor staring at her with his head tilted, drooling and sucking on his finger.

Someone soon gave the heir a shove. "What are you standing there for? She's your wife from now on."

The heir stumbled forward and beamed at her. "Wif...e."

Zhao Yiran: "..."

Zhao Yiran had transmigrated into a book.

She had become the cannon-fodder bride brought in to bring good fortune to Prince Yong's foolish son.

In the book, the original Zhao Yiran looked down on the foolish heir and used all kinds of methods to abuse him. She also had an affair with a son born to a concubine and had a child with him.

But who could have guessed that the fool would one day recover, then become an utterly ruthless villain?

He became the chief councilor, wielding power over the entire court.

The original Zhao Yiran's fate was easy to imagine.

Looking at the fool in front of her, who could hardly be any more foolish, Zhao Yiran curved her lips into an incredibly sweet smile. "Husband..."

To make sure the future chief councilor, who would wield power over the court, remembered how good she had been to him, Zhao Yiran insisted on teaching him calligraphy every day and required him to keep a detailed record of all the good things she did for him.

The fool was very obedient, working hard by candlelight every night to write it all down.

Zhao Yiran was in an excellent mood.

She just had to wait for the foolish heir to become the chief councilor, powerful enough to rule the court.

Then the whole capital would be hers to do with as she pleased.

Until one day, curiosity got the better of her and she opened the foolish heir's daily journal.

Zhao Yiran: "...Did he seriously write an ancient version of The Plum in the Golden Vase?"

Please add my upcoming stories to your collection:

1. After Marrying the Landlord's Foolish Son

In her previous life, Xiuhe's parents arranged for her to marry the landlord's foolish son. Miserable and full of resentment, she took out all her anger on him. She made him do all the hard and exhausting work, and wouldn't even leave him anything good to eat or drink.

Every time the fool called her "wife" in that silly voice, it gave her goosebumps!

Later, she fell for a handsome scholar from their village. On the day she eloped with him, the fool actually chased after her. She watched as the handsome scholar kicked the fool, who had kept calling her "wife," into a bottomless ravine.

Xiuhe was reborn.

She was back on the day she married the fool.

She accepted her fate. She couldn't let someone die, so she might as well make the best of things and live a decent life.

The fool treated her well anyway, and she had everything she needed.

But after she and the fool devoted themselves to living together, he actually recovered and somehow turned out to be the biological son of a prince who had been lost outside the palace.

When the fool became the heir, Xiuhe feared people would discover how she had abused him in her previous life, so she hurried to run away.

But the fool chased after her.

He pulled her into his arms and asked, "Are you trying to abandon your husband and child?"

2. The Chancellor's Darling Wife. A grumpy old house catches fire x a sweet, soft little wife

Qin Sui could govern the country with his pen and secure it with his sword. He set out to the northern frontier at seventeen and returned victorious ten years later.

He was hailed as the Great Zhou's most astute strategist and bravest general.

Three months after returning to court, the emperor made him chancellor.

A legendary man like him was still unmarried as he neared thirty.

Rumors claimed he had been injured in battle and would never be able to marry or have children.

One day, Chu Sui was returning from court when someone stopped his sedan chair outside the chancellor's residence. It was a young girl who hadn't yet grown into her features.

She pleaded helplessly, "I'm the daughter of your late comrade. My mother has passed away, and I have nowhere to go. Please take me in for two years, Uncle Qin. After that, all you'll need is a dowry to send me off."

Qin Sui brought her into his residence.

Two years later, the girl had grown into a beautiful and refined young woman, as lovely as a lotus rising from the water. Matchmakers came by in a steady stream, and Qin Sui began preparing her dowry.

After one round of vetting after another, Qin Sui finally found the girl a fine match: the legitimate son of a marquis's household.

Before he could inform the two of them, the young marquis came by to ask about the outcome.

When the two happened to stand together, they looked like a perfect match, a talented man and a beautiful woman, made for each other. For some reason, Qin Sui found the sight painful.

The girl waited and waited, but no news of an engagement came. Unable to hold back, she asked Qin Sui, "I've been imposing on you for over two years. Please make the arrangements and find me a match."

That night, he summoned her to his room. "Great Zhou is a land of propriety, and marriage is a complicated affair."

The girl asked, confused, "What do you mean, Uncle Qin?"

Qin Sui: "Why not stay here at the chancellor's residence forever?"

The girl: "But what if you marry someday, Uncle Qin, and your wife won't want me here..."

Qin Sui: "If you become the chancellor's wife, you won't have to worry about that."

Theme: As long as you're alive, there's hope.