【The delicate, frail, gentle and virtuous head madam of the household and the irritable emperor who’ll destroy your whole family at the slightest disagreement swapped bodies.】
Meng Fu, as the wife of the Marquis of Xuanping, managed the household for him, showed filial piety to his parents, and also had to handle the jealous infighting among his concubines in the inner courtyard. She did everything that a marquis’s wife ought to do, only that she never gained the love of her husband.
Meng Fu did not love the Marquis of Xuanping, nor was she heartbroken. She had a premonition that her whole life would pass in still water-like calmness — until one day, when she woke up, someone was calling her “Your Majesty” by her ear.
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The palace attendants and court officials felt that their Emperor had changed. Before, whenever he opened his mouth, he could scold them until their heads ached; now, he was like a spring breeze—warm and gentle—he would even ask if they were hungry or thirsty.
—I can! I can still work for His Majesty for another hundred years!
The Marquis of Xuanping felt that his wife had changed. Before, she was virtuous, gentle, and generous; now, she was like a firecracker that would explode at the slightest touch. Yesterday, she scolded his most favored concubine into tears; today, she kicked him into the lake.
Inner-courtyard schemes? Laozi will tear your courtyard down!
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When the Marquis of Xuanping divorced Meng Fu, he declared that this woman would regret it sooner or later. In this capital full of prestigious noble families, who would want a woman who had already been married?
—Zhen wants her.
