[One man and one woman, 1v1 romance + cozy, no melodrama + childhood sweethearts grow old together + two kids]
A battle of drama queens, full of tender, passionate love.
In the twenty-ninth year of Chongning, Liang sent a princess to marry into Xiang.
Helan Xin, the second princess of Xiang, was trained by her father to assassinate the leaders of the tribes when she was young. After her father died, her enemies sought revenge, and danger surrounded her on all sides. So, under her family’s plans, she went to Liang as the third princess to marry into the royal family.
But when Helan Xin saw again the man she had fallen for at first sight, she was torn between her family’s years of careful planning and the emperor’s ever-lowering limits. She didn’t want to disappoint her family, who had placed such high hopes in her, nor betray her husband’s tender devotion. But she had no choice. She had to let one of them down.
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Murong Shu saw the woman who had once relentlessly pursued him and succeeded. He found himself caught in a strange predicament: he could scheme and plan for anything, but he had failed to account for her. At first, he thought she was an impostor sent by someone else to steal Liang’s secrets. Only after his heart stirred again and again, and he made exception after exception, did he finally understand: “It turns out I wasn’t the only one who had stayed right where I was.”
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Without her, the world has lost all its color. Only when the land is at peace and her wish fulfilled, and I return to the Yellow Springs, will I have the face to meet her.
“Your Majesty, what do you think will happen to them after we’re gone? They’ll probably end up repeating the same mistakes, won’t they?”
“Princess, for you, I will unite the realm and bring peace to all under heaven.”
They meet again.
“Princess, will you join me in ruling this great land?”
“If you’re king, then I have to be queen. That’s only fair.”
“Have it your way.”
This is my first time listening to a book on Tomato, it's really good