[Unconventional Dual Male Leads + Western Fantasy Setting + Royal Marriage + Marriage Before Love]
At nineteen, Lian West turned down the third prince of the Empire when he proposed.
The reason was simple.
He was the Royal Academy's most brilliant young mage, with a limitless future and countless complex spells still waiting to be studied. Becoming a prince consort would mean giving up high-level spellcasting for good.
Give up his future for marriage?
Lian didn't think the third prince, no matter how handsome or highborn, was worth that.
The two went their separate ways.
Then, a few months later, Lian was struck by disaster. The once-confident young prodigy became infamous, and his future lay in ruins.
With nowhere else to turn, Lian went back to the prince he had once rejected.
“Your Highness, I've changed my mind.”
Everyone in the Empire knew that the third prince had married a beautiful young prince consort.
Everyone thought it was the most perfect marriage imaginable: a handsome, powerful prince, a beautiful, gentle consort, and a clever, adorable child.
But years later, when Lian's name once again rang throughout the Empire, people finally realized...
The prodigy they'd thought had fallen had never stopped shining. He didn't need any royal title to make him shine, either.
And as for love?
That esteemed third prince will probably have to try a little harder.
