[Main story complete! An ultra-short, goofy comedy, with bonus chapters released from time to time]
Yuan Yiran is the last disciple of the Medicine Immortal Sect. Her master was determined not to lose to the newly recruited genius disciple of the Artifact Sect's leader, his longtime rival, so he put Yuan Yiran through a strict form of tough love. She was raised from childhood to study relentlessly.
When she was five, she had to get up before dawn to memorize the entire Treatise on the Pulse. Just when she had finally learned it well enough to go out and play, she heard that the study fanatic on the neighboring mountain had stayed up all night on the first day of the new year to memorize the entire Treatise on Ink. Yuan Yiran's holiday was canceled, and she was hauled back on the spot to keep studying.
Yuan Yiran: (ノ°Д°)ノ┻━┻
After thirteen years of working herself to the bone, Yuan Yiran was a lazy couch potato who had been dragged into becoming a great talent.
Her joyless life came to an abrupt halt two days ago, because the study fanatic who had made her life miserable was finally kicked out of his sect.
The first time Ziche Xiangwen saw Yuan Yiran of the Medicine Immortal Sect on the neighboring mountain, he thought his junior sister was adorable. But whenever the little fairy junior sister saw him, she rolled her eyes. If he approached, she went out of her way to avoid him, never even looking him in the eye.
He was heartbroken, until his master told him that outstanding people only spent time with other outstanding people. If she ignored him, it was because he wasn't outstanding enough yet!
Ziche Xiangwen believed this without question. For more than a decade, he studied and competed relentlessly, never letting up for a moment, all so he could become outstanding enough to make the little fairy junior sister look back at him. Then his life was turned upside down, and he gave up his identity as a disciple of the Artifact Sect to return to his homeland and become emperor.
The day before he left, he stood in front of the mountain, silently saying goodbye to his first love. When he turned around, he saw the person he was saying goodbye to in the marketplace, a lamb skewer in one hand and a box of durian in the other, with half a sugar-and-oil pancake hanging from her mouth. She mumbled, "Bro, let me hide in your carriage. I don't want my master to catch me and make me study."
Ziche Xiangwen: "?"
Why was his dream girl, his junior sister, so completely different from what he imagined?
With his first love right before his eyes, Ziche Xiangwen's heart pounded. "Now that you know what's going on with me, could you do me a favor? Pretend to be my empress and come back with me to help cover for me?"
Yuan Yiran eyed him warily. "Why ask me?"
The emperor, who was gradually learning his first love's true nature, shut his eyes. "Because you can fight, take a hit, and keep going. Your medical skills are great, so you can resist poison and turn the tables. The palace is unpredictable and complicated. I'm afraid I wouldn't last three days with anyone else, but I'd trust you. No studying, no job, food provided, and your pay is settled daily!"
Yuan Yiran cheered, just as expected. "Yay, I'm in!"
Much later.
Yuan Yiran sat in a tree, enthusiastically slapping the trunk beside her. "Come on, Lady Shu and Lady Xian are fighting over there! Climb up and watch with me!"
Ziche Xiangwen looked at his junior sister, with a watermelon beside her and its rind at her feet. Thinking of the lonely first half of his life, all that grinding and competing had earned him, he fell silent.
Reader advisories:
- A comedian emperor and empress, a goofy sweet romance, and two fools in love
- The male lead is very smart, but hopelessly lovesick, and occasionally acts like a silly dog. If that's not your thing, click away.
- Everyone dotes on the female lead. She's adorable and never suffers any grievances. If that's not your thing, click away.
- The wording isn't historically styled, and uses plenty of modern, everyday expressions. If that's not your thing, click away.
- The male lead has no concubines. Give him a chance to explain himself in the main story! No spoilers, thank you!
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The master is too much of a parent. It reminds me of a friend of mine. She is an adult and she was called at seven o'clock in the evening to ask when she would come home. Girls are not safe outside.
You are such a sweetheart (praise) (praise) (affirmation)
I followed 6 serials, but I didn't expect that this one would be the earliest to finish.
Yes, no matter what, you have to wait until they are officially married.
I want to see what two little Zaizai look like in their lives.
A car bug who is very smart as long as he is not in love hahahahaha
It was so sudden, why did it end... I want to read another 100 chapters
Are you feeling obsessive-compulsive? Suddenly you find that all your works are *00000?
Because it's a bond... (Complicated)
The author's romance writing is really good, and the Western fantasy and martial arts are all similar. What a pity. Goodbye!