[Traditional historical romance + both leads are sexually inexperienced + household and palace intrigue + long-laid schemes + political machinations and revenge + the hero’s arduous pursuit of his wife] Pei Wenjun was disliked by her stepmother from a young age and raised in her maternal grandparents’ home in Jiangnan. Her father, hoping to climb the social ladder, summoned her back to the capital to arrange a marriage. Determined to sabotage the match, she instead caught the attention of Li Zhengze, the Prince of Pingyang, who appeared as pure and noble as the moon but was shrewd and calculating beneath the surface.
Each had an agenda, and they married as circumstances dictated. She used his influence to protect herself, while he used the marriage to set the emperor’s mind at ease.
Only after the wedding did Pei Wenjun discover that her husband seemed to be hiding many secrets. When the mysteries were finally laid bare, she signed a divorce agreement and prepared to leave. But the Prince of Pingyang, who had already fallen deeply in love with her, refused to let her go.
She faked her death to escape, but someone stole her corpse, and she nearly died for real. After many twists and turns, she returned to her hometown, only to find her grandparents’ home deserted...
In the end, the man who had been betrothed to her since childhood became her elder brother-in-law, while the man she married was technically her younger brother-in-law.
When the two brothers confronted each other and demanded that she choose, Pei Wenjun blushed with embarrassment and found herself caught in an impossible dilemma.
