Matchmaking Strategy

Yun Yao transmigrated. To return to the modern world, she must complete a matchmaking mission.

The mission has three levels of difficulty:

1. The female lead's father is a chancellor who claims to support the Jin dynasty, but is actually a traitor plotting to seize the throne. The male lead is a frail emperor stripped of his power, bullied by the treacherous chancellor.

2. Yun Yao transmigrated into the body of the lowest-ranking maid in the Sikong residence, so she can't even get close to the female lead.

3. When she arrived, the female lead had just stuffed the emperor into a sack and beaten him up.

Yun Yao: ...What a hellish start.

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After working tirelessly, Yun Yao finally gets promoted to the female lead's personal maid. Just as she's about to bring her and the emperor together, Xiahou Qing, a warlord from Xiliang, rides into Chang'an with a hundred thousand cavalry to propose to the female lead.

To make sure her mission succeeds, Yun Yao has no choice but to sacrifice herself for the greater good. Disguised as a man and posing as a stable boy, she infiltrates Xiahou Qing's entourage, hoping to sabotage the marriage.

From then on, whenever her lord rides, she leads the horse. When he's thirsty, she brings him tea. When he's tired, she makes his bed.

And when the lamps are out, she whispers in his ear, “The chancellor's daughter is ugly and wicked. My lord must never marry such a she-demon.”

As time goes by, Xiahou Qing starts looking at her strangely.

One day, he finds her in the stables with some freshly picked flowers. “Yaoyao, I wish to break off my engagement to the chancellor and join my life with yours. What say you?”

Heh. Has he been single so long that even a stable boy looks pretty to him?

Well, close enough. The mission is a success, more or less.

Yun Yao grits her teeth and gives in to this bandit.

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Years later, the female lead and the emperor finally end up together. Having completed her mission, Yun Yao takes her bundle and prepares to run away.

On the day she leaves, she stands atop a towering altar and sees Xiahou Qing galloping toward her through clouds of dust, with a vast army following behind him.

“Yun Yao, don't you dare leave!”

He roars at her from below, his eyes red.

The last thing Yun Yao sees is this fearsome northwestern war god throwing himself from his saddle and rushing toward her, desperate to catch her sleeve.

Pure-hearted lord x clever maid

Note:

1. Set in an alternate Wei-Jin era. Please don't nitpick the history.

2. Includes a past-life and present-life plotline.

Theme: Build a harmonious marriage together