Plotting with My Wife

Synopsis: Su Zheyun transmigrated across time and, by a stroke of luck, became a strategist under Prince Duan, Jiang Weixu. She schemed step by step, plotting on his behalf. The gold and silver rewarded for her merits filled the treasury, and her career soared. The only problem was that Jiang Weixu’s gaze toward her grew stranger and stranger. When the study was empty, his hand, adorned with a thumb ring, would slowly trace her face, sending shivers down her spine. Her heart raced in alarm—she was a woman disguised as a man! Had her straight-laced boss been bent by her? She made a snap decision: a job with little work and good pay was fine, but she needed to live to spend it. Bundling up her belongings, she fled in the dead of night. At the Huai River ferry crossing, the night was dark and the wind high. The moment she stepped onto the boat’s deck, flames burst into the sky, and soldiers surrounded them on all sides. The evening breeze hadn’t even risen; all was silent. Though it was deep autumn, cold sweat soaked her back. A hundred ghosts blocked her path; vengeful spirits clung to her. Behind her, the man spoke slowly: “Zheyun, where are you off to?” — Prince Duan, Jiang Weixu, rarely passed through Fang County. The magistrate, eager to curry favor, introduced him to a newly acquired strategist. He was certain a backwater place wouldn’t produce any hidden gem and was about to decline, when the strategist lifted the curtain and stepped inside—bright eyes, white teeth, lustrous as pearl and jade. He couldn’t look away. He wielded power over the court and had seen every beauty under heaven, yet he fell for him. Repeated probing and confessions of his heart were met only with his feigned compliance. On a torrential rainy night, he slipped away without a trace of reluctance. When he captured him again, he lost control and pressed him against the cold wall—only to accidentally uncover the secret he’d kept for years: she was a woman. From then on, she became a caged bird in his palm. He believed he’d given her the utmost affection, yet she remained outwardly obedient while secretly laying escape routes, joining forces with outsiders to flee once more. He gnashed his teeth in hatred, cast an inescapable net, and found her months later. Inside the bed curtains, silver shackles engraved with entwined lotus vines locked around her ankles. He whispered in her ear, coiling around her like a serpent, binding her tight. “You can never escape now, Su Zheyun.” In the tender moments that followed, she clutched the brocade quilt beneath her, the faint jingle of bells mingling with soft breaths, all becoming spring scenery beneath him. Tags: Heaven’s favored son, time travel, cross-dressing, melodrama, happy ending, love redemption arc. — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: Plotting with My Wife — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠