Yuan An, the Grand Princess Jinhua of the Great Chu dynasty, was born with a heaven-bestowed destiny. Yet every year, people died on her birthday, earning her the name of ill-omened star. No one believed in her heavenly mandate anymore, and everyone cast her aside.
One day, everyone who had ever cared for her disappeared, leaving only the new emperor, whose tiger-claw hand was half-curled, to greet her with a sanctimonious smile. He had just promised to treat her with the honors due to a prince. But when the Kingdom of Wei asked for a Great Chu princess in marriage on Empress Su’s birthday, offering an alliance in exchange for the hostage prince’s return, Yuan Ming hurriedly sent Yuan An off to Wei as a bride to protect his own daughter and preserve his interests.
Someone once asked Yuan An, “Do you hate them?”
Yuan An replied, “I do.”
“But compared with a hatred I have nowhere to put, I would rather see all under heaven united beneath one ruler, and the whole realm at peace.”
In the end, a man named Bo Juncheng made her wish come true.
