[Step by step to the top + 1v1 romance + dual secret identities + mutual healing + sweet romance + happy ending]
They say Song Yunshan’s biggest obstacle in love is her own personal attendant.
Song Yunshan: “I’m not good enough for her.”
Attendant: “She’s not good enough for the Marshal.”
Just as Song Yunshan and Luo Yuan were about to finally get together, the whole nation celebrated. A hundred miles of red wedding finery awaited their marriage, but she vanished into thin air, leaving behind only an album of paintings.
After a year of frantically searching for her, he finds her again in a grand red bridal gown, amid the clamor of gongs and drums. As the most honored princess of an enemy nation, she is to marry him in a political union.
Even knowing it was a scheme, he accepted without hesitation.
[On the heroine’s journey to becoming the Grand Empress Dowager, someone is always silently protecting and doting on her, helping her grow.
Once she has transformed, she and the hero begin their retirement, hiding in the bustling city as an ordinary married couple. Now and then, they step in to help the emperor and empress with their problems: looking after the children, disciplining ill-mannered concubines, or dealing with the endless memorials sent over for them to review, and so on.]