[No CP, sweet moments and dark twists. If it’s not your thing, please don’t flame the author.]
Xie Qilan had been raised from childhood to become the Fourth Prince’s consort, with every word and deed held to the highest standards of feminine virtue. Yet at her coming-of-age ceremony, Fourth Prince Tuoba Chi brought home a woman named Song Youlan. The Marquis of Changning and his wife had no intention of acknowledging Song Youlan in public, but Tuoba Chi kept pressuring them. In the end, he cruelly slashed Xie Qilan’s face.
When the Song family arrived, however, the Marquis and his wife changed their tune, acknowledged Song Youlan’s identity, and let the Song family take Xie Qilan away. Xie Qilan was overjoyed to leave the marquis’s household, but she also sensed something strange about both families.
Life is a play, and Xie Qilan felt no discomfort at all about becoming Song Qilan. She thought she’d finally enjoy a carefree life, but after just one month, her identity changed again.
The Song family turned out to be hostages sent from the Southern Kingdom to the Northern Kingdom: the Southern Kingdom’s crown prince and his family!
After twenty years, the Southern Kingdom sent people to bring the Song family home. Song Qilan became a princess of the Southern Kingdom!
From then on, she embarked on a life full of drama and legend.
[Sneaky laugh] I thought it was a weak and incompetent start, but I didn't expect that the heroine is wilted and bad. Even the heroine's biological family members are all above the IQ. The heroine is also pitiful. She only wants to be rich and powerful, and she doesn't want to let her do it. How can she be so miserable?
The heroine's character is quite interesting, and there's no drama about female rivalry.