The Crown Princess Knows a Little Kung Fu - Chapter 1

Chapter 1

I was a Crown Princess from a humble family.

In the capital, if Pan Jinlian lived on this street and casually dropped a bamboo pole out her window, she could knock over a whole crowd of officials with ranks higher than my father’s.

So by all rights, the position of Crown Princess should never have fallen to me.

Unfortunately, the Emperor thought highly of me and insisted I become the Crown Princess.

Even the Crown Prince could only stand behind him at court and glare helplessly.

The palace servants all said that although he had been forced to marry me, he treated me well in daily life.

For example, I once said I wanted to eat winter peaches.

So he searched far and wide for skilled commoners, until at last they came up with a way to make peach trees bear fruit in winter.

The truth was, he brought me a whole sack of yellow pears.

He dumped them on the table and told me they were actually winter peaches.

It was just a pity that, because they had ripened out of season, the climate and soil had not agreed with them, so they had mutated.

He truly took me for a fool.

But for the sake of appearances, I could not hit him. I even had to taste one and praise him for it.

I picked up a pear, chewed and chewed, and was just forcing a smile to speak.

Who would have thought that the Crown Prince would mistake my raised hand for an attempt to beat him? By reflex, he covered his head.

“Guards! Protect me!”

A great swarm of guards charged in, and dozens of confused eyes watched me eat a pear.

The Crown Prince lowered his tense arms, his face flushing bright red.

He coughed softly twice, his expression somewhat unnatural.

“If circumstances allow… when we consummate the marriage tonight, could we perhaps leave a few of them here to accompany me?”

The pear in my mouth nearly sprayed out.

I was furious. I felt deeply insulted.

No wonder such a wonderful marriage had landed on my head.

So the Crown Prince was sick in the head.

But in a fit of rage, all I could do was be angry for a moment.

After all, I did not have a powerful natal family backing me. Naturally, I did not dare make trouble in the Eastern Palace.

Speaking of which, I must mention how this wildly mismatched marriage of ours came to be.

A year ago, the Emperor felt the Crown Prince acted far too arrogantly. As the legitimate son of the Central Palace, he threw his weight around every day.

Bullying his half-siblings born of concubines was one thing. The real problem was that he dared to talk back to the sovereign above him and snap at the officials and commoners below him.

In short: this brat needed fixing.

“Hmph. I must find a capable Crown Princess to dampen his arrogance.”

After much thought, the Emperor chose me.

I had to admit, his judgment was brutally sharp.

Though I was no great talent, I was the first woman to become Military Zhuangyuan since the founding of this dynasty.

Leaving status aside and speaking only of ability, I could fight the Crown Prince with one hand tied behind my back, and he still would not be able to beat me.

And so, on the night of our wedding…

In order to establish his authority, the Crown Prince stood beside me like a quail.

He set a long list of rules for me, secretly watching my expression as he spoke.

The moment my brows furrowed even slightly, he would say, “Haha, that one was just a joke.”

But because there were so many rituals for the Crown Prince’s wedding, I was exhausted, and my tightly knitted brows never relaxed.

Thus, on our wedding night, he stood beside my bed and made jokes the entire night.

The next day, we entered the imperial palace to pay respects to the Emperor and Empress.

The Empress looked at us with a benevolent expression for a long while, then loudly whispered about the two of us into the Emperor’s ear.

“Your Majesty, look at our son’s black eye. It seems the young couple wore themselves out playing last night!”

The Emperor stroked his beard, looking pleased with himself.

“Indeed. I told you the Military Zhuangyuan has a strong body. Seven times in one night would be no problem.”

As soon as he finished speaking, the palace servants throughout the hall covered their mouths and giggled.

I was mortified.

Was that really something they could say right in front of me?

However, as a new bride, I could not interrupt.

So I shot the Crown Prince a look, signaling for him to step forward and stop His Majesty and Her Majesty from continuing their discussion.

Who would have thought that by the time my eyes were nearly rolling blind, he still looked as if he did not understand a thing?

He even walked up to me, his eyes shining with innocence.

“Hm? Crown Princess, why are your eyes twitching?”

I gave up and could only stop making little signals.

Seeing the Crown Prince show concern for me, the Emperor and Empress looked even more satisfied.

From then on, the heartwarming tale of how the Crown Prince and I were inseparable and spent every night in passionate bliss spread throughout the entire capital.