[This story features strong male and female leads, healthy minds and bodies, and a female lead who transmigrates. In short, it’s about two scheming people finding each other and embarking on a mission to prank everyone else.]
Word has it the emperor has issued an imperial decree of marriage: Mu Yuan, heir to Prince Mu’s estate, is to marry Yu Wanyan, granddaughter of Grand Preceptor Yu, as his heir’s wife.
From nobles and royals to ordinary citizens, everyone in Bianjing is utterly baffled...
The heir, Mu Yuan? The sickly bookworm rumored not to live past twenty-five, who never leaves his home?
Never seen him.
Yu Wanyan? That supposedly invisible granddaughter of Grand Preceptor Yu?
Never seen her either.
The marriage decree landed in Bianjing like a small stone, barely making a ripple.
Yet the wedding of the two set off a change in the balance of power among the nobility of the Eastern Mu Kingdom. Only then did everyone belatedly marvel: Our emperor truly is our emperor. What remarkable foresight!
Highlights:
Mu Yuan: “I hear my wife is the finest artist in the world. Would you paint a portrait of me?”
Yu Wanyan, baffled: “I see you every day. What do I need a portrait for?”
The heir sighed wistfully: “Everyone says I won’t live past twenty-five. I ought to leave my wife something to remember me by.”
His wife’s mouth twitched. Who was that cunning as a tiger, leaping about full of life whenever no one else was around?
“...All right, then. Get ready.”
