Playing with Childhood Sweethearts

To avoid making the daughter of the Lin family the empress and creating trouble by empowering her relatives, the new emperor Wei Yunche made Runiang one final demand: she had to become his empress.

He promised Runiang that in a month, he would announce to the world that she had died of illness and set her free.

Their relationship was already tangled enough. Runiang's parents had served the late emperor as imperial agents, and her siblings were both talented in letters and arms. They had all grown up alongside Wei Yunyan, the late emperor's eldest legitimate son.

Runiang was different. She had been frail from birth and couldn't learn martial arts, making her the one in the family offered to the imperial household as a bride.

Wei Yunche was the late emperor's second legitimate son. As a child, he was always running after his older brother and Runiang's siblings, with Runiang at his side.

With Wei Yunyan and her siblings around, all Runiang and Wei Yunche had to do was live carefree lives, loved and spoiled by everyone.

That happy life ended the day Wei Yunyan and Runiang's sister went south and were caught in a flood, their fates unknown. Overcome with grief, the late emperor was near death, while countless eyes watched the throne like hungry wolves and tigers.

The second prince, Wei Yunche, no longer smiled, and Runiang was no longer an innocent child.

Unwilling to go on sacrificing her life in service to the royal family, she agreed to Wei Yunche's proposal. A month later, her family would leave the palace and live out the rest of their lives in peace.

Wei Yunche kept his word. He gave them ten thousand taels of gold, and Runiang was gone for three years, during which she became engaged to a merchant's son.

But on her wedding day, Wei Yunche stormed in with his men. Now that his throne was secure and the realm was in his grasp, he had turned cruel and vile. He forced her fiance to marry someone else and ruined her wedding.

Runiang demanded to know why the Son of Heaven had broken his promise. Wei Yunche got angry first, claiming she had broken their agreement. He produced a crude marriage contract they had written together when they were five, and Runiang's brother confirmed it was real.

On the morning after the emperor and empress's wedding, Runiang called Wei Yunche a bad man and said she hated him.

He didn't deny it. He only leaned over Runiang again and said, "You said the same thing when you were little."

Childhood sweethearts, two little ones growing up together; the male lead is head over heels. A super-sweet, lighthearted story with no angst and no casualties.

Theme: Innocent childhood sweethearts, standing by each other