[Historical Romance + Substitute Princess Consort + Contract Marriage + Faked Death and Escape + The Pursuit After Losing Her + Love and Pain with a Twist + Female Growth + Not a Power Fantasy + Emotion-Focused]
He married her so her face could take the fatal curse meant for the woman he had always loved.
Dai Yueli accepted the contract with a smile, playing the perfect substitute princess consort.
Until the day a blade pierced her chest, she crushed a jade pendant and faked her death to escape.
Three years later, after a new emperor ascended the throne, Yuan Li frantically searched the entire world for her.
At last, they met again beneath the pear tree where he had first seen her.
But she smiled as she took another man's arm. “Sir, have we met?”
Later, the whole capital saw the tyrant kneeling in the snowy night, knocking on her door again and again.
From inside came her lazy voice: “Shh... my pear blossoms have faded.”
