His Highness, the White Moonlight, and His White Lotus Crown Princess

[Scheming, Innocent-Looking Prince Consort Top + Bright, Moonlike Crown Prince Bottom]

In the eighteenth year of Yuanxia Jinghe, Nanye, a neighboring state of Yuanxia, suffered defeat and sued for peace, sending its crown prince, Zang Feng, to Yuanxia as a hostage.

After arriving in the capital of Yuanxia, Zang Feng was forced to drink poisoned wine and had his meridians destroyed, losing all his martial arts skills. The once-beloved pride of the heavens became a caged bird, a fish trapped in a pond.

Then one day, Crown Prince Yuan Tian stepped through the crowd and asked him to become his companion.

Zang Feng looked up and met a pair of clear, gentle eyes, bright as rippling water. One glance, and a lifetime was changed.

If the moon cannot be held in my arms, this life will have been wasted.

Zang Feng buried his ambitions and sheathed his claws, becoming the most obedient little bird at Yuan Tian’s side.

Until the day an imperial edict announcing Yuan Tian’s marriage reached the Eastern Palace. Eyes red, Zang Feng cornered him against a wall. “Am I not enough for you?”

Yuan Tian had nowhere left to retreat. “We’re as far apart as the stars Shen and Shang. There could never be anything between us.”

That night, a great fire blazed through the Eastern Palace, burning down the western annex.

From then on, Zang Feng was no more. Only a charred corpse remained.

Meanwhile, a famously undefeated General Guiyuan appeared on Yuanxia’s southern frontier.

Five years later, the new emperor ascended the throne, and the victorious Guiyuan Army returned. At the celebratory banquet, the court was in high spirits. The young emperor stared at the little child standing beside the young general, a child who looked exactly like him, and went dumbstruck.

General Guiyuan gritted his teeth. “Little dumpling, look. That’s your heartless father, the emperor, who abandoned his husband and child.”

Little dumpling: “Father? Papa said you were dead.”

The assembled officials: “?”

Yuan Tian: “!”

Only the Empress excitedly took the Noble Consort’s hand. “Sister, the Crown Prince!”