The Eldest Princess Is So Annoying! - Chapter 1

In the tenth year of Yonghe, at daybreak in early spring, Empress Nangong gave birth to the emperor’s legitimate daughter.

Overjoyed at becoming a father for the first time, the emperor received a report from the Imperial Astrologer that very night: the Ziwei Star had appeared in the heavens. Upon hearing the news, the emperor granted a general amnesty throughout the realm for three years.

He named his daughter Yang Liu and bestowed upon her the title Qie Ge. She was also the only imperial child since the founding of the Kingdom of Canglan to receive a title at birth.

In the twelfth year of Yonghe, Qie Ge’s natural brilliance first began to reveal itself. The emperor often kept her by his side and personally oversaw her upbringing.

In the thirteenth year of Yonghe, Empress Nangong gave birth to a son. That night, the Ziwei Star appeared once more. Delighted, the emperor named his son Yang Hao.

In the twentieth year of Yonghe, Empress Nangong fell gravely ill with an incurable disease. No medicine or treatment could save her. Several months later, she passed away in Fengyi Palace at the age of twenty-nine.

She was buried in the Changling Mausoleum. The emperor wept bitterly and posthumously honored her as Empress Xiande—the Virtuous and Benevolent Empress.

In the twenty-fifth year of Yonghe, the emperor died of illness in the Hall of Mental Cultivation. He left behind an imperial edict naming the Fifth Prince, Yang Hao, who was only twelve years old, as the new emperor.

After ascending the throne, the new emperor changed the era name to Yongding and conferred upon his elder sister, Yang Liu, the title of Eldest Princess. Her ceremonial dress and privileges were made equal to those of a feudal prince.

In the first year of Yongding, the Eldest Princess Qie Ge, then sixteen and in the full bloom of youth, displayed a beauty capable of toppling cities.

In the fourth month, she married the Marquis of Loyalty and Valor as his principal wife.

In the ninth month of that same year, the marquis rebelled. Enraged, the emperor ordered the execution of his entire clan. The Marquis of Loyalty and Valor died at the age of fifty-one.

However, the emperor was merciful. Out of affection for his sister, and because Qie Ge had known nothing of the rebellion, he ordered the Eldest Princess to divorce her husband.

In the tenth month, the Eldest Princess Qie Ge married Prince Huai as his principal consort.

Less than half a month later, Prince Huai suddenly died in a brothel at the age of thirty-seven.

In the fifth month of the second year of Yongding, the Eldest Princess Qie Ge married the forty-year-old General of the Four Garrisons as his principal wife.

In the eleventh month, the general was struck by falling rocks while marching with his troops. Both his legs were permanently crippled, and his temperament changed drastically. The Eldest Princess Qie Ge submitted a memorial requesting permission to divorce him.

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By the sixth year of Yongding, the Eldest Princess Qie Ge had already married seven times.

Yet marriage had done nothing to restrain her. She kept countless male favorites in her residence and indulged in revelry night after night.

Every man who married her either died, was demoted, or became disabled. Her reputation for bringing ruin to her husbands spread throughout the entire realm.

Yet because she possessed beauty worthy of an immortal and was the current emperor’s only full-blooded sister, countless sons of prestigious families still wished to marry her.

As the saying went: to die beneath a peony blossom was to remain a romantic even as a ghost.

So what if the Eldest Princess kept countless male favorites and brought misfortune to her husbands?!

No matter how many lovers she had, every one of those men believed he could make a wanton woman change her ways!

There was only one person who wanted nothing of the sort.

All she asked was for the Eldest Princess to show some mercy and spare her life!