Snow-Fried Tang Pear

Jiang Li is the pampered little princess of Jinyuan, capricious and carefree, with breathtaking beauty.

On her birthday, the emperor orders a Tangli Banquet to be held in the palace to find her a match, summoning eligible young men of talent from all over the country for her to choose from.

Though it is called a matchmaking banquet, everyone there knows she already has someone in her heart.

When Jiang Li was young, she was in danger while climbing a mountain to pray for blessings. The young master of the Xie family, Xie Weifeng, rescued her, and from then on, she fell for him.

The young master Xie is upright and self-possessed, as bright and clear as the moon. They are close in age, a handsome and talented pair, and their romance would make a lovely tale.

But in full view of everyone, the little princess lets her gaze wander and points at the sickly young man standing beside Xie Weifeng, cold and detached: Xie Shuxue, Xie Weifeng's younger uncle, who has been recuperating at a temple on Yuntai Mountain for years.

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On the eve of the Tangli Banquet, Jiang Li has a hazy dream.

In the dream, she and Xie Weifeng are in love, just as they are now. They live in harmony after marrying, but a few years later, Xie Weifeng reveals his true, hypocritical nature. He conspires with a foreign power, kills her imperial brother, and seizes the throne.

It turns out that all along, he has been enduring and deceiving her for power. In his eyes, she is nothing but a pretty, empty-headed ornament.

When she wakes, the little princess is furious. Looking at her former lover's handsome face, she feels nothing but disgust. But the Xie family has always been upright and incorruptible in court. If she exposes Xie Weifeng's treacherous ambitions outright, people will only think she's talking nonsense.

Jiang Li's gaze shifts to the aloof, otherworldly Xie Shuxue beside him.

In her dream, Xie Shuxue dies of illness within a few months. If she marries him, she can gather evidence of Xie Weifeng's treason in the Xie household and use her status as his aunt-by-marriage to torment that scoundrel. And she won't need to worry about being a wife to Xie Shuxue. After all, he is so ill he could die any day.

The little princess nods confidently. Her plan is practically foolproof.

After the wedding, everything goes as Jiang Li imagined. She happens to find letters proving Xie Weifeng's collusion with the foreign power, and then happens to catch him meeting with its people in secret. The emperor finds him guilty and sends him to prison.

But there is one unexpected thing. Now that everything is settled, her convenient husband, Xie Shuxue, who was supposed to have died of illness months ago, is still alive and full of energy.

The sun is high in the sky. After getting up and washing, Jiang Li sits before the bronze mirror, holds her sore back, and takes out the divorce agreement she has written.

Xie Shuxue gives it an unhurried glance, then calmly pins a flower in her hair as usual. In a quiet voice, he says, "At the Tangli Banquet, the princess declared that she had long been in love with me, longing for me day and night and unable to sleep. You even got close to the young master Xie just to build a good relationship and get to me first."

As he speaks, the languid young man raises his eyes to look at her.

"What is it? Now that you've got me, you're tired of me already?"

A sweet little story of love after marriage.

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