Shy Red Lips

In her previous life, she was an unloved princess of the Wei Dynasty, forced to play the foil to her elder sister.

Though born with breathtaking beauty, she was forced to blacken her cheeks and mess up her hair. The palace servants said, “The lesser princess is nothing like the eldest princess. She's ugly and burly.”

Though she was learned and eloquent, she had to pretend to be illiterate, foolish, and dim-witted. The Grand Tutor sighed, “The lesser princess falls short of the eldest princess. She's dull-witted and impossible to teach.”

Her elder sister gloated, “You'll always be beneath me.”

She meekly obeyed, asking only that she not die unjustly in the palace like her mother.

The only time she ever resisted was when she refused to marry into another kingdom in her sister's place. She then asked to marry the son of a disgraced minister, using her position as his wife to protect him.

But she never expected that the man she'd lowered herself to save would become entangled with her elder sister. While pregnant, she was forced to drink poisoned wine by her sister and died in agony, bleeding from every orifice.

Reborn, she defied her overbearing sister, rejected her repulsive ex-husband's advances, and calmly accepted a political marriage.

Rumor had it that the heir of Zhao was ugly and uncouth, so she prepared herself to marry a brute.

But when she finally met the heir of Zhao...

He was actually a handsome, refined man, as beautiful as an immortal!

More astonishing still, the god of death on the battlefield and wise ruler in court would dote on her enough to say, “If you want it, I'll give you my empire and my life.”

Meanwhile, the heir of Zhao thought happily to himself: “Weren't they supposed to say she was stupid and ugly? Then who is this peerlessly beautiful princess? Wonderful. With a wife this lovely, I'll have to cherish her with all my heart.”