She is the most honored Yongjia Junzhu of the Wuzhao Prince’s Mansion, raised in the imperial palace from childhood and childhood friends with the crown prince. She was meant to marry into the Eastern Palace and become empress.
He is the third prince, renowned for his military achievements, with an iron will and unfathomable depths. Beneath his eyes lurk dormant ambitions and a long-hidden grudge from years past.
A struggle over the succession exposes the undercurrents beneath imperial power.
Once the crown prince’s position is settled, the third prince, Zhao Jue, takes control of the Imperial Guard with an iron fist and closes in step by step. Luo Yuhuan thinks this is merely a power struggle, until she discovers beneath his collarbone a crescent-shaped scar identical to the one in her mother’s portrait…
“The wound on your lips is the seal I put there.”
At a banquet in the Eastern Palace, he crushes her earring in front of everyone. In a shadowed corridor, he tears open her clothes and leaves a bloodied kiss mark. On a stormy night, he grips her throat and demands, “You think I wouldn’t dare kill you?”
But she has never been prey waiting to be slaughtered.
She clears out the Eastern Palace’s spies, cripples the second prince, and plays with fire while laying her plans step by step. But when the truth comes to light, she realizes…
The boy who saved her mother from a bolting horse in the imperial gardens nine years ago was him.
“Choose the wrong man, and the Wuzhao Prince’s Mansion will be the next Anxi Circuit.”
On one side is her gentle, refined cousin, the crown prince; on the other is the domineering, possessive third prince. And the pieces in her hand have long since come to involve more than her own marriage…
◇ Unhinged prince × scheming Junzhu ◇
◇ Childhood friends lose to the unexpected newcomer ◇
◇ Forced possession + intense push and pull ◇
“I want the realm, and I want you too.”
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