The Substitute Princess: The Crown Prince’s Most Cherished Love

Devoted to each other, strong heroine, strong hero, sweet romance, household intrigue, palace intrigue, battlefield There’s a saying among the people: Whoever wins the Eldest Princess wins the realm. “Father, I’m willing to take my sister, Princess Mingzhu’s place and marry into the Northern Kingdom.” Mu Rong Xue stepped forward among the twelve princesses who stood with their heads bowed. Her gaze was firm as she looked at her pale-faced father on the dragon bed. The front lines were in crisis. Her father, Mu Rong Chenhai, was already at a loss and had no troops left to send. With enemy forces at the border, the Northern Crown Prince, Xiao Zhenhui, personally led his army to the Southern Kingdom’s palace and shouted, “Send out your Eldest Princess to marry me. I’ll take her back to my kingdom myself today.” The palace of Great Liang descended into chaos, and the whole court was thrown into turmoil. The Northern Crown Prince, Xiao Zhenhui, was a fierce warrior who had made a name for himself by the age of nineteen. He had swept down from the northern frontier to the Southern Kingdom without suffering a single defeat. At that moment, Empress Qing clutched her daughter, Princess Mingzhu, Mu Rong Yu, and wept inconsolably. Clearly, she did not want her only biological daughter sent to suffer in the frozen wastelands of the Northern Kingdom. They say people from the North will eat you when they get really vicious! Mu Rong Xue wasn’t afraid. A man, no matter how terrifying, couldn’t be worse than more than a decade in the Cold Palace, could he? She had waited seventeen years for this day. For seventeen years, she had planned how to get out of the palace. Today would be her only chance. Mu Rong Xue understood her father’s concerns. No matter how much he loved Princess Mingzhu, he would never risk being blamed for the fall of his kingdom just for her sake. What troubled Mu Rong Chenhai was that legend, the prophecy of a heavenly auspice...