The Prince Returns with His Beloved, and the Palace's Moonlight Turns Dark

[Imperial Couple] [Two Powerful Leads] [Young Married Couple] [Mutual Secret Crush] [Multiple Perspectives, Bad Ending]

The Prince of Chu leads troops to quell a rebellion and returns with a hundred women from the Li people. Qiansui decides that from then on, she and her husband will be strangers to each other. But when she and Helian Zhixin are captured by the rebels and taken to a cliff, she finally comes to her senses: only by holding power in her own hands can she avoid having others choose her fate…

A short story, a very short one.

A nice little bedtime read.