Scarlet Heart: Reborn, Ruoxi Marries the Fourteenth Prince

Ruoxi had died once.

She had no title, no children, and eight years in the Department of Household Work had ruined her health. She had received hairpins, warm jade, and the words “I belong to you,” but she had never gotten the one thing she wanted: a wedding that could be entered into the imperial genealogy.

When she opened her eyes again, she was back on the day Kangxi arranged her marriage to the Fourteenth Prince.

In her previous life, she defied the emperor for the Fourth Prince and was punished with a posting to the Department of Household Work. This time, when the emperor asked, “Are you willing?” Ruoxi bowed low before him.

“This servant is willing.”

She married the Fourteenth Prince not because she loved him, nor because she wanted another man to rely on. She wanted a title written into an imperial edict, a dowry she could call her own, a courtyard gate she could close, and a life where even her “no” would be respected.

The Fourteenth Prince knew she had once loved someone else, yet still gave her one last chance to change her mind. Ruoxi chose him for a second time.

But she soon discovered that changing the arranged marriage did not mean escaping fate. The Fourteenth Prince still had ambitions for the throne, the Fourth Prince was still destined to claim the dragon throne, and the future she remembered was being quietly rewritten with every choice.

This time, Ruoxi would sacrifice herself for no one, and she would not treat love as a way out.

Amid the bitter struggle for the throne, she would fight alongside the Fourteenth Prince for a life with a name and a place, with its own joys and losses, a life that truly belonged to them.