Qin Xue, daughter of a wealthy merchant, lost her mother when she was young. Her doting, clueless father spoiled her until she became an empty-headed, uneducated airhead who cared only about eating and drinking.
One day, the airhead suddenly stopped attending the young ladies' social gatherings, and rumors about her and the Qin family spread like wildfire. Some said the Qin family was ruined and her father was going to trade her for some benefit. Others said he could no longer protect her and was trying to find her a suitable match...
Not long afterward, news spread that the Qin family wanted to take a dessert shop owner as their son-in-law. Everyone said, "The Qin family really has fallen on hard times."
Later, when Ye Qinghan, the Imperial Tutor and the highest-ranking female official in the court, personally arranged a marriage between her younger son and Qin Xue, people finally realized: The Qin family hadn't fallen at all. They had simply allied themselves with the top female official in the court. The so-called airhead wasn't marrying some mere dessert shop owner. She was marrying the Imperial Tutor's son, a renowned genius.
Only then did everyone realize that, while they hadn't been paying attention, the airhead they mocked had already turned her life around and reached its peak!
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Liu Zhiyan, the son of an official, has a father who is Grand Secretary, a mother who is Imperial Tutor, an uncle by marriage who is a regional governor, and an uncle who is chief engineer at the Bureau of Shipping... His whole family is made up of powerful figures from all walks of life.
You'd think that someone with such a background could be a fool and still have plenty of women eager to marry him, yet he reached the age of twenty-five still single.
One day, this long-time bachelor finally decided to marry, and everyone was overjoyed. When they learned the bride came from an ordinary merchant family and was known as an airhead, they all said, "What a shame."
Only years later, when Lady Ye personally entrusted the diplomatic mission to the woman they'd called an airhead, did everyone realize that she wasn't an airhead at all. She was a brilliant diplomatic genius.
Little scene:
1. Liu Zhiyan has a little-known quirk: he likes poking stress balls to relieve tension.
Nobody knows how hard it is for him to hold back whenever he sees Qin Xue's puffed-up cheeks, keeping himself from poking them like a pair of stress balls.
After they marry, Qin Xue learns about his quirk and asks indignantly, "Did you marry me just so you could poke my cheeks to relieve stress?"
"Of course not." As he speaks, he reaches out and pokes his wife's cheek without missing a beat. "It's because your cheeks are so adorable, I can't help loving them (and wanting to poke them)..."
Determined to find a husband to join her household: adorable, silly merchant's daughter VS laid-back official's son who's only warm toward the heroine. Blurb revised on September 1, 2025.
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