Giving Up on Winning Over the Eldest Princess

[Ordinary, gentle female consort x deranged, dark princess]

Angsty pursuit, coercive love, and a powerful woman who never backs down.

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Rebels surround the city.

The newly crowned top scholar and I are tied up and displayed on the city gate.

The enemy general laughs arrogantly. "Your Highness, the princess. Your consort and the person she loves. Which one will you choose?"

Before the three armies, my wife calmly draws her bow and takes aim at me.

"A member of the royal family may be killed, but never humiliated."

As the arrow flies toward me, I complain to the System in my heart.

"See? I told you she doesn't love me. The mission failed again."

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Content warnings:

1. First-person narration, younger woman, both leads are each other's first and only partners. Imaginary setting. Please don't nitpick.

2. They love each other mutually, with no third party. The princess spent her first sixty lifetimes unable to express herself. Only in the final life, after her beloved wife has completely given up on her, does she finally come to her senses.

3. This is not a wish-fulfillment story. There is physical and emotional anguish. The princess has never killed her wife, but she suffers from a mental illness and attacks everyone indiscriminately until she is cured. In this story, the one who suffers for her crimes isn't the princess herself, but other people. She gambles on her wife's soft heart, and that's how they get their happy ending.

4. If this isn't to your taste, please move on. Excessive insults toward the main characters and breaking up the couple I wrote are prohibited. The ultimate goal of every tale of love and hate is a happy ending.

5. The main plot was planned before I started writing and won't be changed. Chapter edits are for fixing typos and bugs. Thank you to all my readers for pointing out errors. I really appreciate it. (Heart)

Theme: Meeting is no easy thing, and what you gain should be treasured all the more