I Accidentally Ended Up in My Cousin's Bridal Chamber

The He and Ji families’ marriage alliance was a match between two prestigious families, and everyone praised it. Ning Yi, who was preparing to move to the capital, was no exception, since the bride-to-be was her close friend.

Before the wedding, her friend asked Ning Yi what her cousin was like.

Ning Yi answered without thinking: “Old-fashioned, stern, a proper gentleman.”

He Guanzhu was the eldest legitimate grandson of the He family. He passed the imperial exams as a young man and rose steadily through the ranks.

With his extraordinary bearing and the air of a tall bamboo, he was like a crane among the mountains, a moon in the sky, a figure no one could reach.

But Ning Yi disliked him. Back in their hometown of Xuzhou, she had often been scolded by He Guanzhu, especially after one day when she delivered a love poem for a school friend. Her cousin snatched it away and sternly lectured her for being a girl who didn’t know how to be ashamed.

...She hadn’t written it. What did she have to be ashamed of?

Ever since she was little, Ning Yi had felt that a lofty flower like her cousin needed someone to pluck him and toy with him, to teach him what it meant to blush.

When she learned her cousin was getting married to one of her own friends, Ning Yi thought it would make life a lot more interesting.

She never expected her friend to run away from the wedding, leaving Ning Yi to take her place in the bridal sedan chair by a twist of fate...

On their wedding night, at the elders’ request and in accordance with tradition, He Guanzhu lifted the red bridal veil. Beneath it was his mischievous, pampered cousin, whom he hadn’t seen in years.

Drugged, Ning Yi’s cheeks were flushed and her eyes hazy as she clutched at the gentleman’s clothes.

In a sweet, coquettish voice, she said, “Cousin... help me...”

Years later, Ning Yi, now the wife of the prime minister, looked at her cousin, who was always so self-restrained and proper, sitting bolt upright, yet somehow always finding new ways to tease her in bed.

She was the one who plucked the flower, so why was she the one blushing?

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