【Strong heroine + political intrigue + irresistible charm + all male leads are chaste + men get their hearts broken + intense push and pull + happy ending + includes cross-dressing】
On the eve of her wedding, her childhood sweetheart elopes with his ideal woman?
After ten years of love wasted on a good-for-nothing, the useless princess still has to go through with the marriage so she won't become a laughingstock.
She has no choice but to dump the jerk, grab someone on the spot who's more handsome, more obedient, and more sensible than he is, and drag him back to the palace!
She thought the palace had gained nothing more than an attractive ornament, but why is her new groom so strange? In his spare time, he makes glass; in wartime, he builds firearms...
She's a princess of the Celestial Dynasty, yet people dare to bully her, calling her sickly, foolish, and incompetent?
Fine. The princess will play frail and pitiful, wield her hairpin like a spear, and summon troops as easily as scattering beans.
In less than three years, she'll execute corrupt officials, command elite troops, expand the borders, and subdue every corner of the realm!
A pampered princess? She wants power over all under heaven!
Her heart is as hard as stone, and she's long since become immune to men. She never expected that...
Her upright, aloof study companion would break his clan's rules for her, letting his white robes be stained with filth.
The iron-boned, mighty general would kneel naked before her, abandoning all dignity.
The unruly young wolf king of the Western Regions would toss away the leverage held against her, then gallop through the night for a thousand miles, just to catch a distant glimpse of her.
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Amid the dark struggle for imperial power, all the brilliance in the sky shines upon her.
And he is willing to burn himself to kindle a flame, becoming one glimmer of light to illuminate her rugged path ahead.
Hand in hand, through life and death!
