[Mutual first love + regretful chase + heroine slightly adored by everyone + all male side characters are chaste]
Zhou Miaoqing, the Chancellor’s legitimate daughter, is spoiled and willful, but she’s also exceptionally beautiful and comes from an exceptionally powerful family.
Raised on stories of scholarly beauties and gallant heroes, she never expected to be rescued by a hero herself.
So she forced him to marry her.
She turned down the gentle young marquis and stubbornly pursued Duan Qiyun, a top scholar from a poor family!
Before the wedding, she was overjoyed. Afterward, he treated her with nothing but coldness.
Their families belonged to opposing political factions. In public, he called her spoiled and useless, then shut himself away from her once they returned home.
Day after day, she waited outside his study with hot porridge, set aside her privileged upbringing to learn embroidery, and stayed up through the freezing nights.
All she got in return was the whole city laughing at her.
Everyone said the Chancellor’s daughter was throwing herself at a poor scholar, making herself the biggest laughingstock in the capital!
It wasn’t until she found an old family letter that she learned someone else had been her real savior.
That bastard Duan Qiyun knew the truth, yet went along with the misunderstanding and married her just to use the Zhou family’s influence to back a prince!
Disaster followed one calamity after another. Her father, the Chancellor, was framed and killed himself in prison. Her brother was exiled to the bitterly cold northern frontier. When she handed Duan Qiyun divorce papers, he tore them to pieces and tossed them into the sky.
After enduring eighty-one trials, she escaped through a dog hole in the middle of the night, fled a thousand miles to the border, and never looked back!
Bandit ambushes, duels to the death, secrets of twin siblings, struggles for imperial power…
At first, he breaks her heart. Later, he gives up everything to chase after her, kneeling until his knees are raw on the stone pavement.
But his late-arriving love can’t outweigh the blood feud that destroyed her family. Will this ruthless powerbroker let her go, or will she soften and turn back to him?
*The heroine’s perspective is shaped by a misunderstanding.
*The dynasty is fictional, so don’t take the official titles too seriously. The author just borrowed whichever ones sounded impressive.
