The Younger Prince Fights for His Princess Consort, Who Falls Deeper With Every Step

[Marriage First, Love Later + Long-Laid Plans + Coercive Possession + Mutual Salvation, One-on-One, Both Pure, Alternate Setting, Powerful Leads, Ensemble Cast]

The well-educated but impoverished legitimate daughter of the Jiang family, Jiang Qingwan, and Prince Yi Fu Jingci, a notorious womanizer with a ruthless streak.

The Jiang family's legitimate daughter was married off. Firecrackers and drums thundered as the wedding procession passed, with ten miles of red wedding gifts.

Even the little beggars by the roadside in the capital, Kyoto, got to share in the wedding feast.

The dragon-and-phoenix wedding candles glowed with joyful light. Through her red veil, Jiang Qingwan watched the approaching silhouette, tense with anticipation.

A gold weighing rod slipped beneath her veil and lifted it, letting a brilliant flash of red fall away.

When Jiang Qingwan saw the person before her, the smile on her lips froze.

She was supposed to marry the Crown Prince of Da Sheng, but the man before her, dressed in wedding robes, was Da Sheng's third prince, Prince Yi, Fu Jingci...

A teasing smile spread across his pale, cool face. He leaned close to her ear and said hoarsely, “I am Fu Jingci. From now on, I am your husband.”

Jiang Qingwan was the granddaughter of the Grand Tutor and had grown up cherished and pampered. Everyone thought she would marry the Crown Prince and become his consort, but a series of upheavals left the Jiang family in decline. Only on her wedding day did Jiang Qingwan discover she had been deceived. The man she had married was Fu Jingci, a dissolute prince known for his ruthlessness. Yet as they spent day after day together, she gradually realized he was not as outrageous as the rumors claimed.

Fu Jingci had loved Jiang Qingwan for years and used every means at his disposal to marry her and keep her by his side. He indulged and humored her in every way, until it finally seemed that their feelings might be mutual. But then he began to sense that an invisible hand was pushing events along, and that even his marriage to Jiang Qingwan might have been engineered by someone.