[Four protagonists, no transmigration or rebirth, not a wish-fulfillment story with a powerful heroine, not a pair of equally powerful leads]
1: [Heroine is 16, hero is 21, they love each other, heartwarming]
On the day Meng Shuwan, the seventh young lady of the Meng family, was born, the family matriarch, Madam Ye, died in childbirth, and the baby boy she was carrying did not survive either. Soon, rumors spread throughout the capital that Meng Shuwan’s birth had killed the mistress of the household.
What the noble young ladies of the capital found hardest to accept was that Meng Shuwan was betrothed to Wei Hanbai, heir to the Prince of Yongan.
Wei Hanbai is now the Minister of the Court of Judicial Review. He entered government service at fifteen and secured the position of minister by seventeen. He is the ideal match in the eyes of countless noble young ladies in the capital.
Who could have imagined that such a peerless young man would be betrothed so early to Meng Shuwan, who was born with the reputation of having “killed her mother”? Their engagement has been controversial ever since it was announced, and the uproar has yet to die down.
2: [Heroine is 17, hero is 22, coercive romance, melodramatic]
Xie Jinyi is the only daughter of the current chancellor and was betrothed from childhood to Ye Nanqing, the former crown prince. Unfortunately, Ye Nanqing died young, succumbing to a terrible illness in the Eastern Palace at eighteen.
Three years ago, fourteen-year-old Xie Jinyi defied everyone’s objections and went to the imperial mausoleum to mourn the former crown prince.
No one knows that the current emperor, the former First Prince Ye Nanzhuo, imprisoned her in a palace retreat for three years. Outsiders believe she is faithfully mourning the former crown prince, but no one knows that Ye Nanzhuo keeps her firmly by his side, forbidding her even to mention Ye Nanqing.
