Dream of the Red Chamber: From the Start, I’m Betrothed to Lin Daiyu

Li Changkong transmigrated into the world of The Dream of the Red Chamber and became the Third Prince of the Great Zhou Dynasty. With no maternal clan to protect him, he headed north at sixteen to defend the border against the Northern Barbarians. After five years of war, he led his troops in crushing their royal court. Riding the might of their destruction, he was made a prince and appointed a general. An imperial decree of marriage thrust Lin Daiyu, a frail, sickly young woman of unparalleled talent who lived under someone else’s roof, into the eye of the storm, making her his princess consort. A war god tempered in the cold imperial court and an ethereal flower nurtured by poetry and books in the inner chambers had their fates entwined by a political marriage. The unsolved case of the former crown prince, the tangled interests of the nobility, the treacherous currents of the struggle for the throne, and the raging dispute over the salt trade in Jiangnan... Their union stirred the muddy waters of the capital to their very depths.