Jade and Pearls

[Substitute Bride, Historical Romance, Duty to Country and Family, Supernatural World]

The Great Qi's God of War, Mu Heng, married a fake princess?

To save my country from disaster, I, Lan Yuan, the Southern Kingdom's saintess, took my younger sister's place and married Mu Heng, the Great Qi's God of War.

On our wedding night, he claimed to be ill and refused to see me. Only after I cut out a pearl to save him, my blood pooling across the floor, did I hear Mu Heng roar as he held my cold body in his arms, just as I was about to die: "Don't go! Don't go! Don't..."

Meanwhile, in the Northern Kingdom of Dongchuan, someone slaughtered the royal clan who had tried to seize the throne when Lan Yuan was married off. By the time he arrived, her wedding procession had already left. He followed in silence, lighting her way... and called out from afar: "Dongchuan offers thirty thousand lanterns to the Southern Kingdom's princess..."