Lord Chancellor, the Empress Wants to Spend Her Life with Just You

[Pure Historical Romance + Political Intrigue + Strong Leads + One-on-One + Happy Ending + Mutual Devotion + The Male Lead Falls First + Mostly Sweet with a Touch of Angst]

A dashing, career-minded empress from a matriarchal kingdom vs. a gentle, devoted, patriotic chancellor from a patriarchal kingdom

Content warnings: The male lead is sexually inexperienced; the female lead is not. Women give birth in the matriarchal kingdom. No harem intrigue, transmigration, or System.

Main couple: Yan Rongjue and Yu Qingjue

Side couple: Zhu Xi and Liang Qi

(This isn't a mindless romance. The career plot takes up a substantial part of the story.)

The realm is divided into three. Gaodian, on the grasslands, uses its iron cavalry to sweep across the land, forcing the Yan and Mo kingdoms to submit temporarily in exchange for peace at home. But without warning, Gaodian breaks its treaty and attacks. Faced with the situation, the two kingdoms have no choice but to ally against their enemy.

Fighting the enemy on the battlefield is where their hearts first flutter.

Later, the undercurrents in the court bring their fates together again and again.

In Yangzhou, on the southwestern frontier, she and he venture into underground tunnels and gather hard evidence against the rebels.

“Will you marry me?”

“With the realm still in turmoil, how could you marry me?”

At the court of Great Yan, he seeks to foster goodwill between the two kingdoms as an envoy, while she turns him down time and again for the sake of her country's interests.

When she is poisoned by a Gu, he risks his life to save her. But fate plays another cruel trick, and the two part on bitter terms.

“How much of what you feel for me is real?”

“All of my heart is yours.”

As war rages between the two kingdoms, she confesses to him loudly in the military tent:

“I like you!”

After that, she has only one thought:

I have to bring this handsome chancellor home!