The Princess Just Wants a Peaceful Life

[Historical romance + one-on-one + single-couple romance + face-slapping + marriage before love + sweet romance]

[A clever princess who only wants to lie flat + a cold, alluring, secretly passionate and mysterious rising star at court]

Everyone knows that Princess Minghua, Shen Lingyi, is the brightest jewel in the Great Sheng.

Spoiled and picky, she picked top scholar Jiang Yanshu at first sight simply because he was handsome.

She thought this marriage was the first move in a game she controlled. Marrying a clever man had to be better than marrying a fool.

But no one knew Jiang Yanshu had entered the game carrying a blood feud.

His gentle, refined demeanor was a façade. Every step was carefully plotted.

It was only after an assassination at a palace banquet, danger during the autumn hunt, and repeated attacks from the shadows at court

that she discovered her “ornamental consort” was ruthless in a fight and deep in his schemes, far beyond her ability to control.

And he had never expected that the proud, pampered princess in his eyes would dare to stand shoulder to shoulder with him amid flashing blades.

“Jiang Yanshu, you lied to me.”

“Your Highness, haven’t you been testing me all along, too?”

A marriage that began as a matter of mutual interest, and two hearts wary of one another, had unknowingly become the only light in each other’s abyss.