Saving the Young Prime Minister

When Nalan Chu was young, she once had a dream.

In the dream, she wasn't the legitimate daughter of the Duke of Wei. She was a country girl from a small village.

One day, a heavy snowfall blanketed the village, and she rescued a young boy. He was cold as ice and never had a kind word for her, but Nalan Chu still liked to follow him around. Every day, she gave him food she'd secretly set aside. To earn enough for his school fees, she quietly took on two grass-cutting jobs.

For a long time, she didn't understand that this subtle, hard-to-explain feeling was called love.

Then, one day, the dream ended, and they never saw each other again.

Years after their parting, he was the newly appointed top scholar, favored by the emperor, while she had fallen into the dust, the daughter of a traitor about to be exiled to Lingnan.

A pearl veiled in dust, she became the laughingstock all the noblewomen in the capital were waiting to see.

But instead, on the snow-covered streets of Zhuque, she saw Lord Qi, cold as frost, gently walking down the long street with a woman, carrying her across the muddy snow. He was nothing like the man who usually never smiled.

A very long time later, Nalan Chu asked the man doing her hair, "What would you have done if you hadn't found me back then?"

He slid in a jade hairpin and replied offhandedly, "I'd keep looking. And if I couldn't find you, I'd go wait for you by the River of Forgetfulness."

A little skit:

One day, after the ministers finished work at the Hall of Government Affairs, they invited one another out for drinks. Only Qi Xu sat apart.

They tried to persuade him with earnest words, when suddenly he said,

"At our house, I'm the one who cooks."

And so Lord Qi became known throughout the capital as a henpecked husband.

My beloved enters my dreams and leads me out of darkness.

Heaven made you a ray of light in my life, waiting for the day I could personally return your happiness to you.

A gentle, sweet-tempered young lady x a gloomy, sensitive illegitimate son

Note: The story's setting has some plot holes.

-------Upcoming historical romance-------

Gu Zhenzhen was stunningly beautiful, well-read, and especially skilled in medicine. As a child, the Imperial Preceptor had predicted she was destined to be empress, and she was engaged to the Crown Prince. For a time, she was the talk of the town.

Then, during an autumn hunt, she caught the eye of a neighboring country's ruler.

The country was impoverished and weak, the emperor cowardly and incompetent, and the Crown Prince was making plans to send her off in a political marriage.

With King Guzang's proposal of marriage imminent, Gu Zhenzhen made a desperate move and sought out the Ninth Prince, who was at odds with the Crown Prince.

Seeing the white cloth covering his eyes, Gu Zhenzhen swallowed all the words she'd prepared. After a long pause, she managed only, "Your Highness, would you be willing to marry me? I'm not especially talented, but my medical skills are passable."

By the bamboo-lined pond, the young man stood beside the water, a faint smile appearing on his cool, handsome face.

"It would be my pleasure to have Miss Gu take care of me."

After they married, the two treated each other with courtesy, and Gu Zhenzhen treated him every day, never leaving the work to anyone else.

But gradually, she began to realize something was off.

Her refined, jade-like husband was restless every night after they went to bed. Not only did he hold her tight and call her by someone else's name, but he also said he wanted to build a cage and lock her up at home.

Could he have another woman and no longer want his poor, long-suffering wife?

After weighing things over, Gu Zhenzhen decided to run away.

On a dark, windy night, she had only just reached the courtyard when a figure blocked her path. Her clear-eyed husband, bright as the moon, held her tightly in his arms. His lips brushed her ear, his voice cold and chilling.

"And where do you think you're going, my lady?"

Note: The male lead is mild and refined on the outside, but a madman within.

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