Sometimes, one wrong step means missing your chance forever.
Daughter of the Chancellor × Son of the General × Young Emperor
Ruan Zhuo was known as a heaven-blessed beauty. Her father was the Chancellor, and her aunt was the powerful Empress Dowager. At eight, she was brought into the palace to be raised by her aunt. She spent her days alongside the Emperor and the princess, and was expected to become the future empress. Yet it was all an illusion. Her parents did not love her, and her aunt treated her neither especially well nor especially badly. Even the Emperor, her childhood sweetheart, insisted on marrying her off to the Prince of Xiang’s household for the sake of power.
In her desperate circumstances, Cheng Yushu, a young man from the Cheng family, reached out to help her.
But she still could not escape being married off. On the way, she faked her death and went into hiding.
By chance, she saved Cheng Lin, the fifth young master of the Prince of Xiang’s household, and was drawn into its power struggles.
When she returned to the capital under a new identity, she still felt sad to see that the Emperor, her childhood sweetheart, was not doing well... but that was all.
Not bad, worth a look