(This one is on hiatus for now. I'll revise it if I pick it up again. If the blurb interests you, feel free to add it to your favorites!)
Zhou Mi was a spy. When her identity was accidentally exposed, she escaped by the skin of her teeth but lost the use of one leg, so she retired and returned home.
After two years of idleness, just as her injuries were gradually improving, the emperor suddenly issued an edict arranging her marriage.
Before the marriage was arranged, a picture book was secretly delivered to her. After looking through it, she chose the best-looking man.
At first, she thought it was the emperor's warning and a way to keep an eye on her.
Later, she decided it could also count as a small reward and compensation.
When Min Rongzhou first met Zhou Mi, all he saw was a frail, sickly woman with an infuriating mouth. She was certainly beautiful, but not at all to his taste.
When they met for the second time, Min Rongzhou found her rather foolishly brave. Admirable, perhaps, but still not his type.
At their third meeting, to his utter shock, he kissed Zhou Mi in a fit of anger.
After that, everything started to go wrong. He felt that Zhou Mi was always flirting with him, deliberately or otherwise.
At first, Min Rongzhou thought the woman might actually like him a little.
Later, he resented her for being interested only in his looks.
One day, a servant noticed that his young master had started acting strangely.
The young master, who practiced martial arts every day and took pride in his manly bearing, had always looked down on pretty boys who fussed over their appearance. And yet he had started worrying about his complexion, wondering whether pearl powder really could make his skin smoother, and even spent his carefully saved wedding fund lavishly, all on his face!
The servant was despairing. "Young Master, are you really not planning to get married and just going to grow old alone?"
Min Rongzhou smacked him. "Are you blind? There's a whole imperial marriage edict enshrined in the ancestral hall! Who'd dare steal my wife?!"
The servant covered his head, aggrieved, thinking that he could have sworn someone had said he'd rather grow old alone than go through with the marriage.
Min Rongzhou: Who said he only took care of his face?
A sly, clever, easygoing beauty x a sensitive, fragile, gorgeous playboy
Theme: Strive for a beautiful new life.
