After Being Forced to Marry the Frail Crown Prince

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Proud, carefree, pampered princess x scheming, refined, indifferent crown prince

Marriage before love / Love and hate / Long-planned schemes

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Fengming's Fifth Princess, Ji Xun, courtesy name Suizhao.

Born with auspicious signs, she was named by the Imperial Preceptor as the chosen daughter of heaven. Blessed with good fortune, she could protect all the people and bring them peace. She was born with the destiny of an emperor.

This set her apart from everyone else.

Ji Xun studied martial arts and literacy at three, learned medicine and saved lives at five, and became the greatest in the land before she was even of age. She excelled in both civil and martial arts, and was peerless in beauty and talent.

If not for an unforeseen turn of events, the throne of Fengming would naturally have been hers.

But disaster struck on her sixteenth birthday. The country was invaded and suffered devastating losses. To protect her country and its people, she volunteered to become a hostage and marry into the enemy state, forced to let the throne slip from her grasp.

Ji Xun did not give up. She planned to seize her throne back.

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The Crown Prince of Tianqi, Ying Chen, courtesy name Xianzhi. His birth caused the death of the late empress, earning him his father's hatred. Frail and sickly, he was taken away by his maternal grandfather, far from the imperial capital, and disappeared without a trace.

Twenty years passed. He returned to Tianqi for a marriage contract, but more importantly, for someone.

He had promised someone that once he recovered from his illness, he would take her to Tianqi for a visit. Now that she was here, he would naturally keep her company to the very end.

On the day she married the crown prince, after they had drunk the nuptial wine but before the red veil was lifted, Ji Xun pressed a porcelain cup against his chest and warned him fiercely, "If you dare lay a hand on me, I'll make sure you don't live to regret it."

Ying Chen slowly blinked, then suddenly began coughing so hard he could barely stand. "My wife, given my current condition, you can rest easy."

Ji Xun: "..."

Right, she had forgotten that he was a sickly man who couldn't even hurt a fly.

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Ji Xun never imagined that her frail, taciturn, gentle and refined husband was actually a two-faced, scheming crown prince who liked to play the pig to eat the tiger.

She discovered his identity when the princes were fighting over the throne. She had planned to let them fight while she waited to seize the prize, only to encounter Ying Chen, who was plotting to take the throne too, on the crucial night.

His swordsmanship was fierce, and he was using the secret technique passed down exclusively by Fengming's Imperial Preceptor.

With their blades crossed, Ji Xun pointed her sword at his chest and demanded, "Why do you know Fengming swordsmanship? What is your connection to Fengming?"

Ying Chen shed his sickly demeanor. His eyes gleamed with a cunning, burning smile, and his voice was as soft as a lover's whisper. "Suizhao, I've known you for a long time."

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Upcoming novel

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Wicked junior sister x cocky senior brother

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When He Lianqi was little, she went out to play with her older sister and met a boy. The boy was handsome, but not very strong. He let others bully him and ended up covered in dirt.

For reasons she couldn't explain, she took him home.

She thought that since she had saved him, he belonged to her. She demanded that he never betray her, even swearing an oath to heaven.

She thought he would always be hers. Who could have guessed that one day, the immortal sects would come in force to oppress the demon realm? He Lianqi looked at the immortals across the riverbank and heard them say to the boy beside her, "You've been playing outside for long enough. It's time to come home."

Only then did she realize that the boy she had picked up was no helpless little thing. He was the disciple of a headmaster at one of the five Tai Bai academies of the immortal sects, and a prodigy held in the highest regard.

He Lianqi felt betrayed and attacked him without hesitation. They parted on bad terms.

They met again on the first day of the war between immortals and demons. By then, He Lianqi was the Demon Sovereign, feared throughout the Three Realms, while Qi Yechuan was the immortal sovereign, famed for his grace and purity.

Under everyone's gaze, they saw the Demon-Slaying Sword pierce her chest. He Lianqi fell to the ground and looked at the young man kneeling before her, struck by the God-Slaying Bow. She gave him one last cool smile.

The immortal sects cheered, believing they had won.

While congratulating Immortal Sovereign Qingchuan, they began slaughtering demons. To everyone's surprise, Qi Yechuan used all his cultivation to set up a mountain-protecting formation, then vanished into the falling snow.

In the fifteenth thousand, three hundred and first year of Chaoyuan, the war between immortals and demons ended with the deaths of the Demon Sovereign and the Immortal Sovereign.

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Five hundred years later, the Demon Sovereign He Lianqi, who should have been dead, was released from her coffin. The girl looked at her powerless self, who seemed ready to topple at the slightest breeze.

The once invincible, mighty Demon Sovereign, who could destroy an immortal sect with a flick of her finger, thought: You've got to be kidding me.

To find out what had happened, He Lianqi assumed the name "He Qi" and entered the immortal sect where her sworn enemy, Qi Yechuan, had once been. She had already figured out how to regain her cultivation and kill him, only to learn that he had been dead for five hundred years.

Believing that if one person had done wrong, everyone was responsible, He Lianqi quickly convinced herself to take revenge on the immortal sect he had protected.

But could someone explain why her irritating senior brother always showed up whenever she was doing something bad?

The new prodigy, Ye Qingchuan, sneered. "Junior Sister, don't let your senior brother catch you doing anything bad, or he'll have to punish you."

He Lianqi looked at him holding her hand and smiled without warmth. "Then let me warn you, Senior Brother: don't let me find out that you know, or I'll kill you."

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On the day He Lianqi's identity was exposed, they shed their gentle facades and pointed their swords at her.

She was ready for anything and thought nothing of these cultivators. She simply hadn't expected Qi Yechuan to shield her and turn his sword on his former fellow disciples.

He said, "She's my junior sister. I won't let her die."

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Reading guide:

1. One-on-one romance, both leads' first time, happy ending.

2. Court politics with a little martial world, fictional setting / flashback warning.

3. The male lead really is sick, but he'll get better.

4. The female lead has not lost her memories. There's a reason she doesn't remember the male lead.

5. Writing is hard. Please support the official release. If you drop the novel, please don't tell me. Thank you.

Theme: Wildfire cannot burn it all away; the spring breeze brings it back to life.