After the Chancellor Became Sweet

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After her seventeenth birthday, Qing Ning gained the ability to smell something different about everyone around her.

Her royal father never smiled, yet he smelled of childishly sweet-and-sour mandarins. Her kind and gentle mother smelled as fresh and lovely as a peach.

But Consort Cui, who had recently won the emperor's favor, wore layer upon layer of fragrant powder. Beneath it, though, she gave off the smell of a rotten pear.

Qing Ning wrinkled her nose, realizing she seemed able to see through the layers concealing another side of everyone.

It wasn't a bad thing, until Qing Ning realized that the current prime minister, as cold as the snows of the Celestial Mountains and aloof as an immortal banished from heaven, gave off a faint, delicate sweetness that she couldn't resist.

Coming soon: Did Madam Get Physical Today?

The night before Yun Ni was to marry the Prince Regent, her aunt by marriage, who had always been close to her, dabbed at her tears with a handkerchief. Holding Yun Ni's hand, she repeatedly urged her: "The emperor is young. The poor princess has had to shoulder this heavy burden. When the time is right, you must kill that usurper who bears another surname!"

Yun Ni clutched a jade ruyi, her heart pounding. She could hardly believe she was really going to marry Rong Yu, yet she smiled and replied, "Don't worry, Your Highness."

Everyone knew the Prince Regent and the daughter of the prime minister had been childhood sweethearts. He had forced the princess to marry him only to secure his power.

Yun Ni knew he had someone else in his heart, but she still couldn't help edging closer to him, a little closer each time.

On their wedding day, Yun Ni replaced the wine in the flask with peach blossom wine she had brewed herself. Rong Yu took a small sip, then turned and left with a swish of his sleeve.

Yun Ni: He really does hate me.

Prince Regent: This wine... The princess really is trying to secretly kill me.

After they married, Yun Ni brought a bowl of ginseng soup out of the kitchen, which looked like it had been through a war. The Prince Regent frowned. His experience told him the soup was probably poisoned, but he couldn't bear to refuse a bowl Yun Ni had made with her own hands, so he drank it all.

He spent the entire night running to the bathroom.

Unaware of the truth, Yun Ni thought: He's sleeping in the study again. He really is sulking.

The Prince Regent, drained from a night of diarrhea: Madam really can't stand me.

The blurb has been screenshotted.

Highlights:

1. This is a fictional setting, a fictional setting, a fictional setting.

2. The age gap is 10+ years.

3. The female lead might be a sweet, naive airhead.

4. I'll add more if I think of anything~

Theme: Look beyond appearances to see the truth