At that moment, Han Manxi opened her eyes and asked:
"Is everything ready?"
"Rest assured, miss. Everything is ready."
The speaker nodded toward the side, and a woman built like a small mountain suddenly emerged from the shadows there.
She was none other than the Youping Commandery Princess, Chen Jiaping.
Her father was Prince Xian, the emperor's own uncle.
As his title suggested, he was an idle prince.
But however idle he might be, he was still a member of the imperial family!
Everyone held their breath, their eyes fixed on the screen.
Not knowing who she was, Song Yaoyao asked:
[Guagua, who's this fat girl?]
Guagua: [She's the Youping Commandery Princess, Chen Jiaping.]
Song Yaoyao nodded:
*[So that's her!*
*I've heard of her, but this is my first time seeing her in person.]*
Guagua said with gleeful anticipation:
[Now we're in for a good show.]
Song Yaoyao had long heard that Chen Jiaping had been sickly as a child. Years of taking medicine had caused her to gain so much weight that her figure had become badly distorted.
Even when she reached marriageable age, no one came to propose a match.
Knowing that her weight was the reason, she had desperately tried to slim down.
There were no scientific weight-loss methods in this era. People simply starved themselves.
Once, Chen Jiaping went five straight days without eating. She failed to lose the weight and fainted from hunger instead.
Prince Xian had summoned many imperial physicians from the palace to his estate, and the incident had caused quite a stir.
After that, Chen Jiaping could no longer try to starve herself thin, because Princess Consort Xian assigned a matron specifically to watch her.
Now Chen Jiaping was already twenty, yet her marriage remained unsettled.
There had been men who wanted