[Traditional historical romance + no transmigration + no golden finger + palace and household intrigue + sweet romance]
Bai Jiaojiao, daughter of a wealthy merchant in Qingzhou Prefecture, vowed to find her birth father. At eighteen, she was still unmarried. As fate would have it, while traveling to the capital to search for him, she met His Highness Prince Chen, the emperor's most favored son. After he rescued her from danger several times, they fell in love, chose each other, and ultimately joined forces to bring down powerful villains.
A little matchmaking drama in ancient times:
"Mother, I wasn't being unreasonable!"
"Last time, that young master from the Li family saw the pockmarks on my face and left without looking back."
"And the time before that, the young master from the Fang family said my voice sounded like an old woman's and that I wasn't suitable for marriage."
"And there's more! The young master from the Xie family was handsome and dashing, and he was very affectionate toward me, but his eldest son born to a concubine is already five, and he has five bedchamber women."
For a time, Prince Chen Zhao Changqing was the talk of the capital, a celebrated figure known in every household. Yet the fact that the position of Princess Consort had remained vacant for years was a source of regret. There were all kinds of rumors among the people. Some said Prince Chen might be in love with a married woman, longing for someone he could never have. Others said he had a problem in that regard and could not love a woman. Some even suspected His Highness Prince Chen preferred men…
