[Marriage Before Love]
The Legend of the Prince of Lanling: Yang Xuewu, still trying to manipulate me? A sequel set in an imaginary historical world. A short story you can finish in half an hour.
Beneath palace walls stained with blood, conspiracies surge like the tide. Sima Meng stages a coup and usurps the throne, leaving the realm on the brink of collapse. To turn the tide, Gao Han painfully gives up her love for Shen Mochen and marries the young general Gu Xiao, offering the nation as her dowry in exchange for his help quelling the rebellion. Shen Mochen races back from the northern frontier, only to arrive thousands of miles too late. All he finds is the wedding of Gu Xiao and Gao Han. His former lover now wears a phoenix crown and bridal robes, having become the empress above all others.
On their wedding day, Shen Mochen rides into the palace. His travel-worn figure meets Gao Han’s gaze, she magnificent in her empress’s finery. Their love has not died, yet mountains now stand between them. Gu Xiao watches his rival, murder in his eyes, while guards line the palace walls with bows drawn, surrounding the hall on all sides.
From atop the palace wall, he looks down at the entwined figures inside the hall. “A quarter past midnight, with the moon at its zenith.” His voice carries a chilling authority, even without anger. “One person may leave unharmed. If two shadows emerge…” Before he can finish, the entire palace falls silent. Guards packed shoulder to shoulder along the walls draw their bowstrings in unison, a forest of arrowheads gleaming coldly in the moonlight. “Then these ninefold palace halls will claim two more souls.”
A tale of love and hate, political schemes, and a contest over the fate of the realm, love, and life and death now begins.
I think although it is short, it is really well written. A traitor forces the palace to usurp the throne. Does the princess use the entire country as a dowry and hire General Gu as her father? And the country was passed on to the prince-in-law, but the princess had a childhood sweetheart, General Shen, and the two fell in love very much. The story is about the love-hate entanglement between the three of them. . This book is a continuation of the previous one, and the character setting remains the same, but the history seems to have been changed into a framework, and the names of the people and places have changed. But the plot direction remains unchanged. Good, I hope to create other works, I will always support you, it's awesome