When I was young, the Emperor betrothed me to three men.
Whoever married me would become the Great General Who Guards the Nation and command the empire's entire military.
But at my coming-of-age ceremony, the three men who had once sworn they would marry no one but me suddenly all asked to marry my younger sister.
“Xinling and I are in love. She is the only woman I can marry.”
“Zhong Xinrong has a vicious temper. She doesn't deserve to be a general's wife.”
“None of us is willing to marry Zhong Xinrong. We beg Your Majesty to grant our request.”
It was supposed to be my coming-of-age ceremony, yet my younger sister stole the entire spotlight.
Everyone there looked at me with pity.
But they didn't know that the Emperor had arranged my marriage because I inherited my maternal grandfather's legendary military treatise.
The Emperor feared I would help a border general seize power and declare himself king, so he used the marriage as an excuse to keep me confined in the capital.
Since my three betrothed have made their choice, it's time to appoint someone else as the Great General Who Guards the Nation.
