He Xin Chao (Celebrating the New Dynasty)

Three years ago, the newly crowned top scholar, Shen Yanqing, was forced into marriage, compelled to take Ji Zhen, the youngest son of the Chief Grand Secretary, as a male wife. One was a flawless gem of beauty and talent, blessed by the heavens; the other, a good-looking but empty-headed fool. Together, like a union of heaven and earth, jade and mud, they became the laughingstock of the capital. Ji Zhen was aware that Shen Yanqing looked down on him, and the noble youths of the capital secretly mocked him as well. His elder brother, who had cherished him since childhood, advised gently, “You and he are mismatched. Why force it?” The Young Marquis, whose engagement to Ji Zhen had been ca...