Mu Rujun was adopted as a child by her master and his wife. She is both her master’s prized disciple and his adopted daughter. She volunteered to go to the capital to treat the Northern Prince’s injured legs, but she had barely entered the city when members of the Chu family kidnapped her to take the place of the eldest Chu daughter in an arranged marriage. The man she was to marry was none other than the person she had come to find: Northern Prince Xie Changji.
Mu Rujun turned the situation to her advantage and struck a deal with Lord Chu. After marrying successfully, an even thornier problem arose.
The Northern Prince’s leg injury was far worse than she had expected. It would take a full year to heal, and because of the bride swap, her identity was precarious. She had no choice but to pose as a noblewoman of the capital and secure her position as the Northern Princess Consort, or risk being charged with deceiving the emperor.
She had to focus on treating the Northern Prince while dealing with the cunning, foxlike Grand Chancellor Chu. The undercurrents between the Northern Prince and Chancellor Chu seemed to involve more than a mere struggle for power…
Did the eldest Chu daughter really run away from the wedding just because she looked down on the Northern Prince’s injured legs?
Rumors in the capital claimed that the Northern Prince was obsessed with power and utterly heartless. Many commoners cursed him as a traitor, but after spending time with Xie Changji, Mu Rujun didn’t think he was one.
If anyone deserved to be called a traitor, it was the Chu family’s chancellor. He knew that he and the Northern Prince were locked in a struggle to the death, yet still sent his daughter to marry into the prince’s household. After his own daughter ran away, he kidnapped an innocent passerby to take her place. When threats and bribes weren’t enough, he even poisoned Mu Rujun, hoping to control the “Northern Princess Consort” and use her for his own ends.
Mu Rujun should have left the capital after healing the Northern Prince’s legs, but she unexpectedly learned the truth about her birth…
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