In an age of chaos, the Meng, Nan, and Liang kingdoms stood in a tense balance. Meng and Nan planned to form a marriage alliance and annex the weakest kingdom, Liang. Liang had no choice but to send Luo Jingxue in place of the Princess of Nan, to marry into Meng.
From the heroine's perspective:
Before agreeing to the marriage, Luo Jingxue knew that her husband, Meng Yi, had a beloved woman. He had even threatened to die rather than marry her for the sake of this other woman. But she hadn't expected to be ambushed by assassins on the journey to Meng, or that her battered arrival would be met only with her husband's indifference. On their wedding night, he was by his beloved's side...
After that came a runaway carriage, an assassination attempt by the beloved, poisoning, her husband's cover-ups, and one ordeal after another. Even Death himself would have to admit she was impressively hard to kill!
Then, after all these mishaps, she learned she'd mistaken the beloved for someone else! The real one was another woman! More accidents and injuries followed... Then she heard she'd gotten it wrong again!
At last, she broke down and demanded of Meng Yi, "Who is this beloved of yours, anyway? I'll give way, all right?" Meng Yi gazed at her with deep affection, brushed the wisps of hair by her ear, and said softly, "You are the only one I love!"
From the hero's perspective:
I got a wife for free through this marriage alliance. I refuse! She must be an enemy spy!
Why is my wife so pretty? A honey trap! My heart is steadfast!
My wife doesn't take me seriously? Unacceptable! Gather the most learned people in the kingdom and form an advisory team. They must win my wife over!
Advisor A: A husband shouldn't apologize to his wife. It would cost him his dignity as a man!
Meng Yi: You're sentenced to divorce your wife!
Advisor B: Take another concubine to make her jealous! She'll feel threatened and come make peace with you!
Meng Yi: You're sentenced to go home at once and dismiss all your concubines!
Advisor C: A couple may quarrel in bed and make up in bed. Just get under the covers together, and you'll be right as rain afterward.
Meng Yi stared wide-eyed, blushing as he asked, "Does that work?"
A peacock-like, narcissistic yet devoted hero x a sharp-witted heroine who always gets her revenge and never overthinks things. One-on-one romance, and the hero has no unrequited first love.
Theme: No number of secret identities can resist the arrow of true love. True love conquers all!
