"I heard the Seventh Prince's wife prepared an anti-assassin cloak, and it's lined with chili powder!"
"That's good now. From now on, if anyone displeases the princess, they can just take something out of the dowry box!"
Shen Weiwan, in the bridal sedan, was delighted to hear this and reached out to touch the small bag of chili powder hidden in her sleeve. Through the gap in the sedan curtain, she saw Xiao Yu riding on a horse, and around his waist was the "deceptive ring" she had given him, the jade gleaming in the sunlight.
At this moment, Xiao Yu was staring at the box of croton powder, and whispered to the guard beside him: "Keep an eye on the princess's dowry, especially those packets of croton powder. Don't let her spill it into my father's lotus seed soup..."
The guard's face flushed from trying to suppress his laughter: "Don't worry, Your Highness. We have prepared a wet handkerchief to cover your mouth."
During the ceremony, the Fengtian Hall was brightly lit with candlelight. When Xiao Yu reached out to lift Shen Weiwan's red veil, the Liu Ruolin sisters who were watching nearby were about to laugh at her when suddenly a fine red mist rose.
"A-choo! A-choo!" Liu Ruolin burst into tears, and her carefully painted eyebrows blurred into a mess. Several other noble ladies nearby were also hit by the sneeze, and the sneeze sounded one after another, and the hall was in chaos.
Shen Weiwan winked at Xiao Yu and said with a mouth shape that only the two of them could understand: "Is it useful?"
Xiao Yu had been holding his breath for a long time, and only now did he slowly exhale and whispered to her, "It works, but I'll find you a more discreet way to spread the powder later."
"Your Highness really understands me!" Shen Weiwan smiled with her eyebrows curved, "From now on, we will be husband and wife and work together to trick the whole palace!"
On their wedding night, red candles were crackling with sparks. Xiao Yu lifted the brocade quilt and was nearly startled by a fake snake that rolled out from within. Then he saw the bed littered with bags of chili powder, bottles of itching powder, and several squeaky, poisonous wax insects.
"Chen Weiwan!" He rubbed his forehead with a headache, "Can these things be put into the warehouse?"
"No!" Shen Weiwan hid back, holding a bag of "Beauty Itch". "These are all my treasures! If the remnants of the Liu family come to make trouble one day, these are life-saving artifacts!" She held up a bag of croton powder. "Just like that idiot Liu Ming yesterday, if I had brought more of this stuff, he would have been scared to death!"
Xiao Yu reluctantly hugged her in his arms, nuzzling the jasmine scent in her hair. "Okay, okay, whatever you want. But you're not allowed to use it on me, do you hear me?"
"I know!" Shen Weiwan rubbed against his arms, her fingertips secretly touching the ring on his waist, "First cheat outsiders, then cheat... um!"
Xiao Yu lowered his head and kissed her chattering lips, the red candlelight flickering across the tent. Unbeknownst to anyone, in the newlyweds' bridal chamber, besides festive red makeup, there were also "trickster artifacts" capable of arming half the capital.
The next morning, Shen Weiwan, as expected, stormed into the imperial kitchen with her dowry. As she pulled out chili powder and prepared to sprinkle it into the emperor's lotus seed soup, the imperial chefs collectively knelt and begged for mercy: "Princess, spare us! We will never again inform Liu!"
Xiao Yu leaned against the door frame, fanning himself with a folding fan as he watched the fun unfold. "Weiwan, Father likes sweet things. Why not try adding ground ginger to his cakes?"
"Good idea!" Shen Weiwan's eyes lit up, and she immediately turned to the cake steamer, "Let's do it! Let the emperor taste his daughter-in-law's 'filial piety'!"
Sunlight filtered through the carved window lattices, illuminating the two smiling faces as they gazed at each other. From then on, the Dasheng Dynasty's palace gained a new consort, the Seventh Prince's wife, who loved to frequent the imperial kitchen. Her dazzling dowry, designed to "trick her husband," became a legendary topic of conversation among the people of the capital. As for villains like Liu? Just wait, the princess's dowry chest always holds a new "surprise"—after all, a princess who knows how to trick others never disappoints her enemies.
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