Snow from the Old Dynasty

[Both Reborn + Arranged Marriage to Love, but the childhood sweetheart arrives from nowhere]

Clear-eyed princess who gives her life for her country × Treacherous minister, a madman who has secretly loved her for two lifetimes

If Zhao Yanli were reborn at seventeen, the first thing she would do...

Would be to remove the hairpin that marks her as a princess, publicly defy the emperor's edict and break off her engagement, then marry as a commoner the enemy who made her die a tragic death in her previous life: Mo Jueniu.

The world laughs at her for being insane. Only she knows this is a gamble in which she is staking everything.

On their wedding night, she smiles over a cup of wine and says, "Husband, may we be of one heart forever and live in harmony."

The wedding scale rests lightly against her neck. Mo Jueniu's voice is low. "My princess, this wedding dress is even more glaring than the luxurious robes you used to wear."

She proceeds with her plans one step at a time, offering strategies wrapped in sweetness and feigned affection, hoping to keep this future blade firmly in her grasp.

Things don't go as planned. He raises an army ahead of time and takes her to the front lines.

Amid countless armored horsemen, he grips her chin and forces her to look at the rotten imperial capital at the end of the smoke-filled horizon.

She thinks he only wants revenge, but he leans close to her ear and says something that shakes her to the core:

"Do you think you're the only one who's lived a second life?"

"Yanli, will you go back to be buried with your damned old dream, or stay..."

"...and help me, a madman who has loved you for two lifetimes, overturn this wretched world?"

*1v1, both sexually inexperienced, happy ending, two-year age gap, includes an amnesia plot

Theme: Courage is the song of life