Due to an imbalance of power within the family, Yu Ziyu, the pampered youngest daughter of the Yu family, was forced to marry the valiant young general Li Jiyan.
Yu Ziyu was dissatisfied.
She had heard that Li Jiyan was cold and aloof, lacking in romance, and only knew how to fight. She didn’t want to marry such a boring person.
Before her wedding, she overheard several old maids in the household discussing the art of managing a husband.
Yu Ziyu was a bit crazy, and upon hearing this, she immediately understood!
She went back and devised her own set of husband-management techniques.
The three cardinal principles of husbandhood: propriety, mind, and body—she implemented them all!
From then on, she had her new toy.
Li Jiyan was obedient to her, subservient, and allowed himself to be beaten and scolded.
Yu Ziyu only felt that she had the skill to manage her husband and was smugly pleased with herself.
Later, a political upheaval occurred in the court.
She parted ways with Li Jiyan.
She found love again with the powerful Third Prince.
However, when she took out her “Art of Husband Taming” again, the Third Prince’s handsome face turned ashen: “Who taught you to tame your husband like this!”
Yu Ziyu burst into tears.
She stammered, “This is how I discipline Li Jiyan, why can’t you listen to me like he does…”
Only then did she realize.
It turned out that the only one who could accept her endless manipulation was that stern-faced fool, Li Jiyan.
[Mini Theater]:
Wedding night.
Li Jiyan, with his rough, large hands, tremblingly lifted the bride’s red veil.
He said with a slight shyness: “Wife, I am illiterate and do not know how to care for people. Just give me your orders and I will obey.”
Yu Ziyu raised her pretty face and stared at the handsome and tall man.
She kicked his knee.
”According to the rules of our Yu family, on the wedding night, the groom must kowtow three times to the bride before entering the bridal chamber. Are you willing?”
Li Jiyan hesitated: “Is one kowtow okay? If I kowtow three times, isn’t that like sending someone to their grave?”