Silly Cousin

[A super-sweet short story for just one yuan. The leads are always mutually in love, with no angst.] [Coming soon: Marrying into a Humble Family, a sweet story of love after marriage] The prominent families of the capital had always avoided young ladies who were merely cousins, as if they were poisonous snakes. Su Yiruo was one such awkwardly placed cousin. When she brought some food to her eldest male cousin, her eldest aunt was so alarmed that she immediately arranged a marriage for her son. When she made a fan cover for her second male cousin, her second aunt threw out every precious trinket in her son's room. When she stitched a shoe sole for her third male cousin, her third aunt took her son to visit her family overnight. Su Yiruo had no way to explain herself, so she could only hide in her room all day. Who knew her eldest male cousin would turn down two marriages to noblewomen for her? Her second male cousin kept her fan cover by his pillow, playing with it every day. Her third male cousin missed her so much that he fell lovesick. The three aunts had no choice but to seek Su Yiruo out one after another, hinting that they wanted her to become a concubine. Su Yiruo would rather become a nun in a convent than a concubine. To avoid offending the three aunts, she casually pointed to a handsome young servant sweeping the corridor and said: "I don't want to be a concubine. I've already pledged myself to this servant." The Crown Prince, who was indulging his fondness for dressing up at the Zheng residence: "?" And then... Su Yiruo became... the Empress. -- Zhao Yuyan admitted that there was definitely something wrong with him. Instead of acting like a proper Crown Prince in the Eastern Palace, one day he went to the west of the city to play a beggar, the next he went to a minister's residence to play a doctor, and the day after that, he played a servant. The first time he played a servant, things went awry. Luckily, a young woman saved him. She was lowborn, honest, and kindhearted. People had bullied her again and again, and he heard that the people of the Zheng family even wanted her to become a concubine? She might as well... become the Crown Princess. A sweet, guileless cousin who refuses to be a concubine vs. a Crown Prince with a flair for the dramatic A sweet treat, both leads are pure, no landmines. [Reader's guide]: This story features male rivals competing for the heroine, followed by a regretful chase. The eldest male cousin is gentle, the second is sharp-tongued, the third is a schemer, and the male lead is a straightforward big puppy. The leads are always mutually in love. --------------Coming Soon------------------ [Important]: A sweet story of love after marriage + household intrigue [Synopsis]: Before Noble Consort Su fell out of favor, Su Heshu had made a name for herself in the capital thanks to her status as the noble consort's niece. She had only made it into the circle of noble young ladies through family connections. But at least she had made it in, hadn't she? So when Noble Consort Su fell out of favor and the Duke of Cheng'en chose a poor scholar to be her husband, Su Heshu was devastated. But her parents had arranged the match, and she had no grounds to refuse. On the first day of her marriage to Shen Qingduan, Su Heshu gazed at the cramped new room, too small even for her dowry chests, and wept inwardly. On the tenth day of her marriage to Shen Qingduan, Su Heshu's heart broke again when she had to give up trying to talk with her mother-in-law because the older woman's Mandarin was too poor to understand. On the hundredth day of her marriage to Shen Qingduan, her mother-in-law slaughtered the only few old hens the family owned to nourish Su Heshu during her pregnancy. Su Heshu was speechless. A little warmth rose in her heart. On the nine hundred and sixty-fifth day of her marriage to Shen Qingduan, he became prime minister. And she became the prime minister's wife. In the tenth year of her marriage to Shen Qingduan, he had never taken a concubine or a secondary wife. He indulged her in everything and had never once said no. When the Duke of Cheng'en married his legitimate daughter to a poor scholar, everyone in the capital had laughed at him. Su Heshu, too, had been dragged down and treated like dirt. But later, when the duke's poor son-in-law became prime minister, the people of the capital finally realized and praised him: "The Duke of Cheng'en truly has an extraordinary eye for people." Theme: The simple, ordinary life is the real thing.