After Forcibly Marrying the Greatest Beauty

A new martial arts tournament is underway. The first-place winner will get to marry the world's most beautiful woman.

For that prize, Fu Yaoye, master of the Yi Pavilion, appears at the tournament with the Chengxiao Sword in hand.

Skin like snow and bones like plum blossoms, eyes like cold stars.

Of the three thousand snowflakes, not one is him, yet not one fails to resemble him.

Fu Yaoye asks the name of the world's most beautiful woman several times. Everyone present is ready to laugh at the young man.

After easily defeating everyone, he returns the Chengxiao Sword to its scabbard, not a speck of snow touching him.

"I know none of you held back, so I'm taking the world's most beautiful woman with me."

Fu Yaoye walks step by step toward the people of the Baiwu Sect. Everyone watches the number one beauty tensely, only to see the man beside her shift in front of her, shielding half her body.

"Beautiful one, come home with me."

No one expected Fu Yaoye to ignore Wen Shuang, the world's most beautiful woman, and fall for her older brother instead.

The martial world is in an uproar.

Would anyone in this day and age really be willing to marry a man with a grand bridal procession, three matchmakers, and six betrothal gifts?

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After being married for a while, the two begin exposing each other's secret identities.

Fu Yaoye: "Shi Qingluo, the old emperor's third prince."

Shi Qingluo: "Fu Yaoye, heir to the Marquis of Wuping."

The entire Marquis of Wuping's household was wiped out, and the one who ordered it was the current emperor. Fu Yaoye had thought that he and Qingluo would be enemies.

Who knew Qingluo would tell him, "The old emperor will die by our hands sooner or later. Rest assured, Pavilion Master."

"Patricide, Luo Luo! You're just saying that out loud?"

Qingluo retorts in kind, "Regicide, Pavilion Master! Haven't you been thinking about it for years?"

Fu Yaoye laughs heartily. "A beautiful snake-hearted one. Just as expected of my wife."

"You flatter me, Heir."

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Peace reigns throughout the land, and Fu Yaoye has avenged his great wrong. He no longer needs the Chengxiao at his waist, replacing it with a folding fan.

The current emperor is as handsome as Pan An, yet insists on defying the whole world by making a man his empress. Unable to persuade Qingluo, the court officials turn to Fu Yaoye.

As he watches the civil and military officials kneel one by one in the snow, Fu Yaoye stands in a single thin robe, watching them get carried away one by one. He doesn't give in for a moment.

So what if he's the number one in the martial world? He still has to obey the emperor and become his empress.

"The world's turmoil and ten thousand miles of rivers and mountains are nothing beside us, united and walking this road together, never to betray each other in this life."

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Chapter titles and summaries are taken from Zhang Jiuling's Gazing at the Moon, Nineteen Old Poems, Zheng Sixiao's Five Hundred Words on Twenty Trials, Xie Tiao's Composed at the New Pavilion Islet with Xu Du Cao, and Hanshan's The Faraway Hanshan Road.

Theme: Fear not the clouds that block your view, for you stand at the highest peak.