Luring Spring Home, the War God’s Heart Is Stirred

(No rebirth or transmigration. A slow-burn romance in which the male and female leads face exile together and eventually become emperor and empress.) Lin Yao is the unluckiest daughter of a noble family. She is breathtakingly beautiful, but when she was young, a wandering monk foretold that she was destined to become a calamity-bringing beauty. No one dared ask for her hand, even when she came of age, so her father secured an imperial decree sending her off to marry into a foreign land. A year later, that small vassal state was destroyed, and Lin Yao was sent back. From then on, she lived in a nunnery. Later, she was forced to take her elder sister's place and marry the third prince. * The third prince's bride was replaced with a twice-married woman. Furious, he looked into his new wife's tearful eyes and couldn't bring himself to take his anger out on her. But he still had no intention of truly becoming her husband, so he moved straight into his study. Aside from the princess's stunning face, he felt nothing for her. * On the fourth day of their marriage, the emperor issued an order assigning the third prince to a bitterly cold territory, where he was to govern with his family. Though it was called a fief, the emperor was actually jealous of the third prince's military achievements and intended to have him assassinated on the way. Three hundred imperial guards escorted them, and the third prince was already gravely wounded. They survived countless brushes with death before finally escaping. * The third prince was the empress's legitimate son and the Great Yuan Empire's God of War. He had never wanted to fight for power, but after enduring such humiliation, he would use the sword in his hand to cleave his way into the Golden Throne Hall, place the phoenix crown upon her head, and clear her name of the wicked concubine's curse. Years later, the new emperor stood in the Golden Throne Hall in his imperial robes and declared before his ministers, “I offer my empire as the bride price and take Yao Yao as my empress. I give her my whole heart for a lifetime, and we will grow old together. In life, we shall share a bed; in death, we shall share a grave.”