[Historical romance with a strong female lead + one heroine and two male leads + marriage before love + forbidden love triangle + angst with sweetness]
On the eve of my wedding, the Crown Prince stopped me on a palace path. Eyes red, he asked why I would rather marry his teacher than wait for him.
I didn’t answer, because I knew better than anyone that love was the least valuable thing of all.
The Crown Prince was passionate and dangerous. He could make my heart race, but he could not give me the stability I wanted.
Xie, the Grand Tutor, was noble, disciplined, and powerful. He was the one best suited to join me in this game of chess.
And so I became the Grand Tutor’s wife, envied by everyone.
By day, I was poised and proper, and my husband and I treated each other with mutual respect.
By night, the Crown Prince lost control again and again, using palace banquets, old feelings, and drunkenness to make me turn back.
But the most dangerous man was never the Crown Prince who refused to let me go. It was my husband, who seemed cool and restrained but was actually several moves ahead.
One wanted me to turn back, the other wanted me to stay. But what I wanted was never to be someone’s favorite.
I wanted a place in this storm-tossed city that no one could take from me.
The heroine, who can take things seriously and let go, gets married first and then falls in love with the hero, and the sweet text brings out the sense of the picture.