Don't Bully the Princess!

A silly beauty x a man clever enough to seem demonic

Yue Yao was the youngest child of her father, and a rather silly princess.

She had no particular skill at music, chess, calligraphy, or painting. She was also slow-witted and awkward with words, and could hardly ever win an argument.

Fortunately, as a princess adored by her parents, Yue Yao's life was more or less smooth and pleasant.

When she came of age for marriage, Yue Yao hoped to get a prince consort who was even sillier than she was. Then she could lord it over him instead of being pushed around.

Who knew that her father would promise her to the younger son of Chancellor Zheng?

Yue Yao felt as if the sky had fallen.

Who was Zheng Xuan?

He was handsome and charming, but so full of schemes that they seemed to coil like lotus roots. He was the natural enemy of a silly girl like her!

Worse still, the two of them had once had an unpleasant falling-out, and she had remembered his words, "You're so stupid," for three years.

Yue Yao could only cry and beg her father to find her a different prince consort.

Zheng Xuan was composing poetry by the age of four and fu poetry by the age of seven. His talent was famous even in his youth, and when he grew up, a great scholar of the age praised him as "so clever he is almost demonic."

He had been exceptionally brilliant since childhood. Even as a young boy, he offered strategies to his father and earned the emperor's praise as a talent fit to assist the ruler.

He was an outstanding debater, undefeated no matter the opponent's gender or the importance of the matter.

At seventeen, he placed third in the palace examination, entered the Menxia Province, and became a close aide to the emperor, responsible for providing advice and speaking candidly on major and minor state affairs.

He understood the emperor's intentions and accepted with a smile.

But Zheng Xuan, who had enjoyed more than a decade of success, never expected that the silly princess would not want him.

On their wedding night, Zheng Xuan recited seven or eight poems for the bride to lift her fan, but Yue Yao kept her embroidered fan firmly in place and refused to lower it.

Zheng Xuan's patience ran out. With a half-smile, he snatched the embroidered fan from the princess's hand...

"I'm a princess. You aren't allowed to bully me!"

Beneath the embroidered fan, the beautiful princess shrieked and yelled. She was still the same silly girl as before.

Reader's Guide

Romance-focused, with the love story at the center.

The writing is simple. If you have high standards, read with caution.

I'll try to write a clever male lead, but I might mess it up (crying).

Slow-burn, everyday life.

Theme: Keep looking on the bright side