My Childhood Friend Husband Rules the World

Yan Hua, the stunningly beautiful daughter of Master Yan of the eastern part of town, had matchmakers lining up at her door, but she refused to marry anyone.

After a few years, the young gentlemen whose proposals she had rejected could have formed a line stretching from the east side of town to the west.

“The grudge has gone on too long.” They had “turned from fans into haters.”

Through word of mouth among the young gentlemen, Yan Hua became an ignorant, useless, pretty-faced fool, an “old maid” no one wanted to marry.

But Yan Hua didn't care. She already had someone in her heart.

He was brilliantly talented and had gone to the capital to sit for the imperial examinations. Sooner or later, he would return with honors and marry her.

As spring waned, a group of examination candidates finally returned from the capital.

They were travel-worn and bedraggled, looking like a bunch of down-and-out failures who hadn't earned any distinction.

Among them, Yan Hua finally saw the man she had been waiting for so long.

But...

After staring for a long while at Xu Qing, who looked like a scholar in plain clothes, Yan Hua waved her hand decisively.

“Never mind if you didn't pass. The one thing my Yan family has plenty of is money. We can afford to support you!”

She was fully prepared to make sure her poor childhood sweetheart felt the warmth of “home.”

But things gradually started to seem off.

The old scholars at the academy praised him to the skies.

The impressive prefect came to visit him in person.

Even the bandit chief from a mountain ten miles away treated Xu Qing with the utmost respect!

It wasn't until she followed Xu Qing through the gates of the imperial palace that Yan Hua realized:

Her husband had become the most powerful man in the land!

[Blurb dated 2022.3.10]

Theme: Never forget your original aspirations.