Everyday Survival in Ancient Times

The day she was reborn as a princess of a fallen kingdom, Ye Changying finally accepted her fate.

She was sent to marry into the enemy nation, and everyone took her for a pretty ornament they could push around at will.

Her husband’s family despised her, the world looked down on her, and everyone around her wanted to poison her.

She tried to flee before the marriage alliance, was caught and brought back, then swallowed a bowl of poison. As she hovered between life and death, Wen Shiyan risked his life to find an antidote and save her.

But when she opened her eyes, her first words were ice-cold:

“You poisoned me.”

Furious beyond words, he thought her foolish and cold-hearted, repaying kindness with betrayal. He could do without her.

But no one understood: for someone from a fallen kingdom, life was worth less than grass.

She dared not trust anyone, including the man who had saved her.

Captured again and forced into another marriage, she stopped begging and stopped accepting her fate.

Overnight, she destroyed the enemy army’s horses with drugged powder, threw their camp into chaos, and fought her way out of captivity.

She won her freedom once.

What awaited her was a divorce letter he had been forced by imperial authority to deliver.

Years later, in a small border town, the owner of a hotpot restaurant was brisk and ruthless, never letting a single coin slip by when she tallied the bills.

No one knew she had once been the wandering princess of a fallen kingdom.

Until the emperor himself came in disguise, eyes red, having searched the land from end to end for her.

Ye Changying smacked her cleaver against the chopping board and looked up calmly.

“Get in line!”

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A bold female general x a scheming, fallen crown prince

Li Quehui found a man as cool as jade amid the desolate ruins of a battlefield.

She thought he was just a defeated prisoner of war.

In a turbulent age of war, a captive’s life was worth less than grass. She neither killed nor executed him, but brought him back to her camp. To her, that was already an immense act of kindness.

Among the camp’s rugged men, he alone was handsome and refined, beautiful as a crown of jade.

“So pretty, it makes my heart ache,” she said with a smile. “Stay here, and I’ll take good care of you.”

He said nothing, his beautiful eyes full of stubborn defiance.

In the days that followed, he poured tea, ground ink, made the bed, and curled up in a corner of the tent at night like a cat with its claws tucked away.

She gradually grew used to finding a cup of warm tea when she returned to her tent, and to having a shadow beside her under the lamplight.

Until one day, he vanished without a word.

Her subordinates were baffled. Li Quehui wiped her spearhead without looking up. “Let him go.”

To her, he was just a prisoner she had taken in on a whim. Whether he stayed or left made no difference.

Li Quehui thought she would never have anything to do with him again.

She never expected to meet him once more in court.

And she certainly never expected him to be the crown prince.

His eyes held all kinds of emotions: hatred, resentment, and feelings she could not fathom. But the gentleness of old was nowhere to be seen.

Zhou Shiyong had never imagined that at his most wretched and destitute, he would find himself trapped in the tent of a female general stationed at the border.

In Li Quehui’s eyes, sparing his life was a kindness, and keeping him around as a servant was charity.

But to a man born with such noble blood, it was a lifetime of humiliation and degradation that could never be washed away.

He endured and obeyed, waiting for a chance to escape.

His hatred had taken root long ago. Once he climbed to power and held authority in his hands, his first thought was to get rid of her.

In the end, he came to rule the realm.

And she still commanded a great army, as defiant as ever.

So be it.

She had once saved his life.

Now he would show mercy and spare hers.

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