1v1 | Pure Love | A Sweet Historical Romance Cloaked in Court Intrigue | Childhood Sweethearts |
For a century, the Great Sheng dynasty has chosen royal consorts exclusively from distinguished scholarly families. Sons of military families are forbidden to marry princesses.
Everyone says the eldest legitimate princess of Yuanming is spoiled and willful.
On the day she chooses a husband in the Golden Hall, she is free to pick from the sons of court officials.
Yet she spurns the proper choices and selects an unassuming outsider, drawing the condemnation of the entire realm.
But no one knows that she has never had eyes for a refined young scholar. She is waiting for the heir to the Marquis of Zhenbei, whom the world dismisses as a boorish soldier, unworthy even to aspire to become a princess's consort: Lu Heng.
A young general, bloodied on the battlefield. He can guard the vast northern frontier and rout armies of thousands, yet he cannot break through a century-old divide between civil and military power, or cross the nine tiers of palace walls that separate them by rank. They were childhood companions, but years have passed since they parted.
Amid the snow and wind of the northern frontier, he fights for every victory, blade in hand, only to earn the honors worthy of her. In the intricate game of power in the capital, she lays her hidden plans one step at a time, waiting for the moment he can return.
They love but cannot say it; they are close, yet cannot draw near. The court is swept by turmoil, and the contest for the throne twists and turns.
“I am willing to trade half a lifetime of military honors and my loyal, steadfast heart for a lifetime of peace for the princess. I beg Your Majesty to break with ancestral law and grant me the love I seek.”
With the realm at peace and prosperity secure, they finally get to share an ordinary life together.
