Wanwan, My Lord: The Princess Wants to Rule

[No transmigration, no rebirth. The heroine has a mind of her own and is no clinging wife. A quietly told story of a noble, clever princess and a loyal slave weighed down by suffering.]

Yun Wan was raised deep in the imperial palace, a princess born to wealth and privilege. Throughout history, princesses have mostly been tools of imperial power, displayed to proclaim the ruler’s favor. But Yun Wan never believed that being born a woman meant she should silently wait for and accept a life arranged for her.

Because her birth mother was lowborn, she had to pour all her strength into pursuing happiness, and at last secured a happy marriage for herself...

Ji Yanchuan was born among the common folk, struggling to survive at the bottom of society. His mother died young, and his father and elder brother fell one after another on the northern frontier. He had no choice but to abandon his dream of earning an official title through the exams and take his father’s and brother’s place in the military household. Fortunately, he had been betrothed early to the daughter of a wealthy merchant in the capital. The merchant used his influence to get Ji Yanchuan into the capital’s imperial guard, sparing him the hardship of the northern frontier. He only had to guard the city gates and wait two years before marrying his beloved. His life was plain, but full of hope...

The two were worlds apart and should never have crossed paths. Yet, on a moonless night, the princess fell into peril and was caught in a scheme. She stumbled alone out of a dense forest. Beneath the towering city gates stood a girl in tattered clothes and a young man in immaculate armor.

The girl said she was a princess.

The guards at the gate laughed in scorn. Only the young man believed her.

From that night on, their fates were bound together. No one could have imagined that a city guard and a princess born to wealth and privilege would ever meet again.

When they did, one was a masked bandit with a blade in hand, and the other a prisoner drenched from head to toe...