My Father and Brother Died for Their Foolish Loyalty, So I Took My Widowed Sister-in-Law to Seek the Empress

[Strong leads + using each other until they give their hearts to one another + joining forces to unite the realm + both leads are devoted to each other + a formidable partnership + from testing one another to entrusting each other with their lives + war + political intrigue + romance given equal weight + one female lead] The day Xiao Heng defected to Great Xia, Empress Murong Zhao gave him three choices: First, stay, and I’ll make you a general. Second, take the money and leave. We’ll be even from then on. Third, prove you’re worth taking a gamble on. Xiao Heng chose the third. He proved his worth by defeating twenty thousand with just three thousand, proved his loyalty by capturing twelve cities in a row, and proved his importance by personally destroying two enemy states. Everyone said the empress and the Prince of Parallel Kings were just using each other. Until the day the empress stood before her ancestors in the Imperial Ancestral Temple and said four words to Xiao Heng: “I love you.” Until the day Xiao Heng dismounted in front of an army of ten thousand and took her hand before them all. Using each other? No. The truth is, they had been moving toward each other from the very beginning.