Your Highness, Please Take the Regency!

[The realm and its people + love and hate + personal growth + saving each other]

Song Wan, Princess Qingwan, and Jiang Yunjin's first encounter was awkward and absurd. She had no idea that he was the emperor's ruthless commander of the Embroidered Guard, whom everyone respectfully called Lord Jiang.

He, too, had no idea that the woman staying up in the middle of the night, disguised as a man and working at a male brothel to earn money, was the legitimate eldest princess, who had been locked away in the palace for years and whose face was unknown to all.

They hid their identities from each other and fell deeper without realizing it.

The Great Song court was rotten to the core, with imperial power crushing all beneath it, factional strife, and a battle over the succession. They were both swept along by fate, with no control over their own lives.

She was determined to resist the constraints of public opinion and pursue freedom with all her heart. He had suffered a troubled past and carried secrets, yet beneath his bloodstained exterior lay a pure and transparent heart.

Later, when she learned the whole truth, she, who had been strong her entire life, finally teared up. “A Jin, we've spent our whole lives weighed down by our reputations, battered and bruised. Can we learn to let go and look ahead in the years to come?”

Theme: Other people's words are a cage that traps us. To draw a prison around ourselves is surely foolish.

In a sentence: A brave and resilient princess VS a commander who loves playing spy games.

A story about two leads with a pile of secrets each, and the question of who can keep theirs hidden best.

The dynasty is fictional, and much of the worldbuilding is invented. Please don't nitpick the historical details.