The Chancellor's Legitimate Daughter Is Reborn and Refuses to Marry the Crown Prince

A practice piece, don't read

In her previous life, Lu Yujiao was the legitimate daughter of a chancellor. After being framed into becoming the Crown Prince's secondary consort, she worked tirelessly to help him wrest control of the military. Little did she know he had only been using her. For the sake of her half-sister, Lu Yunshuang, he condemned her to death.

Reborn just before her scoundrel father took a secondary wife, she wants nothing to do with marrying into the imperial family this time around. All she wants is to protect her mother and cure her cousin's illness. But she gradually realizes that in her previous life, she was merely an ignorant pawn in this grand power struggle.

Her so-called sister has an extraordinary identity, and so does her cousin. Why are you all hiding behind secret identities, each convinced you're the ultimate winner?

The Crown Prince says, “Yujiao, I have feelings for you.”

Lu Yujiao: “Then what's going on with you and my sister being in love with each other?”

The Third Prince: “Yujiao, I truly love you.”

Lu Yujiao: “Then why did you force me to marry you without even asking?”

The Fifth Prince: “Marry me, and I can keep your family alive.”

Lu Yujiao: “???”

In the end, even the utterly unremarkable First Prince turns out to have been hiding his true nature?

Not one of you is sincere. I, Lu Yujiao, absolutely refuse to marry into the imperial family. I'll just stay with my frail, sickly cousin. But after she evades the imperial family's many schemes, her seemingly delicate cousin Qin Jing, who is actually a cunning master of martial arts, traps her and says, “A Jiao, what if I'm part of the imperial family too?”