[Radiant, haughty princess x scheming wife-devoted fanatic]
Fu Shangle, a princess of Great Qi, had skin like jade and a flowerlike face. She was doted on by the emperor and empress from childhood.
Her spoiled, carefree days came to an abrupt end the moment Jiang Xuan appeared.
Grand Tutor Jiang Xuan was as cool and pure as jade, with the graceful bearing of a crane.
He wouldn't let her sleep in, confiscated her storybooks, and punished her by making her run laps and copy essays.
Worse still, this living calamity was the man she had been betrothed to since birth!
Every night, Fu Shangle angrily bit her brocade quilt and cursed Jiang Xuan as a bastard who had no idea how to treat a beauty gently.
Even if he was handsome and tall, with long legs and a pretty decent stamina...
But! Was she, Fu Shangle, really the sort of person who would so easily surrender to good looks?
*
So she relied on her literary talent, which surpassed Li Bai and Du Fu and swept aside the Eight Great Masters, to write essays and stories relentlessly making fun of him.
An attendant reported to Jiang Xuan, "My lord, someone called 'Peerless in the Literary World' has appeared in the capital, writing everywhere that you are guilty of the worst crimes."
Jiang Xuan: "Ignore it."
The attendant: "My lord, that Peerless in the Literary World has written another story, The Tale of Zhong Kui's Furious Execution of Jiang Xuan. It says you choked on candy, died, went to the underworld, and were punished with a caning by Zhong Kui."
Jiang Xuan glanced at the bag of persimmon candies he had just confiscated and fell into thought.
The attendant: "My lord, that person has written another book, The Tyrannical Grand Tutor's Contract Wife. Now all the young ladies in the capital are asking about the next installment!"
A few days later, the attendant discovered Jiang Xuan sitting ramrod straight at his desk, reading that vulgar storybook.
He read for several days in a row. When his eyes passed over the unspeakably steamy passages, he even let out a soft laugh.
*
Fu Shangle was waiting with her legs crossed, eager to see Jiang Xuan's angry face. Instead, she was delighted to discover that she had acquired a devoted fan who kept paying her writing fees.
She happily left the palace to meet this person. When she pushed open the door, her own husband was sitting upright at the table, leisurely drinking tea.
The Tyrannical Grand Tutor's Contract Wife was conspicuously lying on the table.
Fu Shangle's toes curled so hard they could have dug out three palaces. He had discovered her stash of smut!
She dropped to her knees and rushed to him. "I was wrong, husband! I'll agree to anything, as long as you don't tell Father!"
He calmly laid out his terms. "Then, Your Highness, finish writing the rest."
Fu Shangle: ???
*
Later, to stop her from missing deadlines, Jiang Xuan came up with all kinds of ways to help her develop the plot.
Fu Shangle clutched her disheveled sash, tears in her eyes. "Y-You bastard! I, the princess, am divorcing you!"
[Short Scene]
One day in the imperial study.
The emperor: "What lessons have you been teaching the princess lately, my dear subject? Le'er keeps complaining that her waist aches."
Jiang Xuan replied calmly, "Your Majesty, I have been teaching the princess... descriptive detail."
Under the table, Fu Shangle stamped hard on Jiang Xuan's foot.
But the other person caught her jade-like foot instead!
[Reader's Guide]
One-couple, sweet romance, both leads sexually inexperienced, betrothed since birth, and an identity-reveal story. The author has an abundance of original worldbuilding, and the male lead's wife-devoted trait is maxed out.
Theme: Dare to express yourself
