After I Transmigrated as the Overbearing Grand Princess

Modern office worker Lin Wei unexpectedly became the notorious Princess Zhaoyang of the Great Yin dynasty. Reeking of alcohol, she had just abducted Shen Jinghan, the newly named top scholar, at the Qionglin Banquet. The contemptuous gazes of the officials cut into her like knives, pinning her to a pillar of shame as a "lewd and tyrannical" princess.

The moment she received the original owner's memories, she realized she was trapped in a fatal predicament. The original owner was infatuated with Shen Jinghan and had imprisoned him in her mansion. He was destined to rise to great power, and when he turned on her, she would die! To protect herself, she dismissed the guards and sent him warming medicine, only to be met with his icy stare. She secretly passed along his essays on statecraft, stirring up the court and provoking suspicion from the emperor's brother, who pressured her to "keep the top scholar in check" to prevent a rebellion.

As she carefully navigated one step at a time, affection quietly blossomed amid danger on all sides. She risked her life to steal the ledgers documenting embezzlement for him. When he fell ill on a cold night, she stayed by his bed and gave him medicine. Before the flutter sparked by their fingertips could even warm into something more, the imperial relatives set a deadly trap, accusing them of treason. The emperor flew into a rage and ordered her mansion searched. She helped Shen Jinghan escape through a secret passage at the cost of her own safety, and was thrown into the Cold Palace, where she was starved and humiliated. Even on the verge of death, she kept watch for news of him.

Shen Jinghan led his army to breach the city walls. When he entered the Cold Palace, all he found was a bloodstained dress. Overcome with grief, he ascended the throne and gave his "deceased wife" a lavish burial fit for an empress. He did not know that she had already used a death-feigning drug to seize a chance at survival. Under the assumed name A Wei, she had disappeared into a bookshop in Jiangnan.

Three years later, he passed the bookshop while traveling incognito and caught sight of a familiar profile teaching children to read. At the words "Pei Wantang," she turned away in tears, and memories of imprisonment and desperation, risking their lives for each other, and being so close yet worlds apart came flooding back. From the shame of the abduction at the Qionglin Banquet, to their life-and-death separation in the Cold Palace, and finally to their reunion and embrace amid the prosperous imperial court...

Theme: Though the one you love lies beyond mountains and seas, even mountains and seas can be crossed.