The Love-Struck Princess Wants to Give Up on Love

(Completed, feel free to read.)

Princess Consort Ling Zhaozhao is obsessively and unwaveringly in love with Prince Ming.

In the eyes of the world, Prince Ming, Xie Yanhan, is nothing but a cowardly failure who clings to life and fears death, a weak and useless cripple.

But in Ling Zhaozhao's eyes, his withdrawal from the world is a transcendent, open-minded outlook, while his throwing in the towel is a profound wisdom for living.

During Xie Yanhan's darkest days, his leg was ruined, his fiancee broke off their engagement, and he was exiled.

Ling Zhaozhao refused to give up on him. She spent all the Ling family's wealth to save his life and even followed him alone to the place of exile.

On the day the city was sealed off because of an epidemic, she cried as she broke into the restricted area. Somehow, the frail girl found the strength to drag him out from a pile of pus-covered corpses. She cared for him day and night, pulling him back from death's grasp by sheer force of will.

Ling Zhaozhao thought her hardships were finally over and that she had at last moved him. But after returning from the capital, he brought back his former fiancee, who had fallen on hard times and found herself in dire straits.

"Zhaozhao, I am grateful to you, but she is the one I love."

Only then did Ling Zhaozhao realize that, in his eyes, she had been using her kindness to demand repayment all along.

Her family had fallen into ruin, and her own brother had been conscripted to the lands beyond the frontier, his fate unknown. After all the sacrifices Ling Zhaozhao had made, she finally watched him tell the bandits, "Let Tongtong go, and I will give you the Ling family in her place."

Her heart twisting with pain, she could take no more.

She decided that even if removing the love parasite might cost her life, she would dig out this damn thing.

As it turned out, Ling Zhaozhao's infatuation with Prince Ming was only because she had been afflicted with a love parasite, which could not easily be removed.

Everyone in the Ling family knew. Faced with two evils, they had allowed Ling Zhaozhao to remain infatuated with Prince Ming.

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After surviving the ordeal of having the parasite removed, Ling Zhaozhao immediately felt that the world had gone quiet and her mind had cleared.

Looking back at her past actions, she wanted to curse. What kind of piece of trash was that? It was too embarrassing to even look at. Was she, Ling Zhaozhao, really the person who chased after a useless cripple?!

If she was going to pursue something, it would be something worthwhile, such as... a woman's supreme status, power, and fame...

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Ling Zhaozhao's fierce and uninhibited love made Xie Yanhan want to draw near, yet afraid to do so.

He kept telling himself that Ye Shutong was the one he loved, but it didn't work.

Later, he almost managed to convince himself that after he and Ling Zhaozhao worked together to stage a rescue for Ye Shutong, he would explain everything to Ye, then settle down and live peacefully with Ling Zhaozhao.

But Ling Zhaozhao ruthlessly pulled away in one clean move.

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Later still, Prince Ming, who had always been content to let things slide, rebelled. In the great hall, his armor was soaked in blood, and he fought like a man possessed.

Because his Zhaozhao wanted to be empress. Unless he was dead, he would never allow anyone else to sit on the throne.

#Pah! A man's love can't compare to building a career!#

#What happens when a hopeless romantic has her love root dug out? The answer: she becomes career-minded.#

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