The General Is Being Stubborn Again

A clever, increasingly ruthless princess from the cold palace × a disciplined young general who protects her in silence

Yan Xi and Gu Xuyan first met at a spring banquet when they were children.

One was a princess of Yan abandoned in the cold palace. The other was the distinguished legitimate son of a family of generals with a century of history.

She fought her way out of the cold palace and earned her father's favor. After returning from Ciyi Valley, all she wanted was to look openly upon the young man she had fallen for.

But on the very day Gu Xuyan returned in triumph as a young general, she received an order to raid the Gu residence. The glory of a family that had served as generals for a hundred years was crushed beneath the Imperial Guard in an instant.

She went to the prison and made a deal with Gu Xuyan.

Help me claim the throne, and I will restore your family's century-old glory.

The road to the throne had to be watered with blood. Power and self-interest would cloud one's judgment, coiling around Yan Xi's jade-like neck like a venomous snake.

Having lost his family's honor, Gu Xuyan also lost the courage to look Yan Xi in the eye. He kept to the rules between ruler and subject, abandoning all hope of anything more.

"If we were not ruler and subject, we would be a pair of birds flying side by side."

"My love for you is more than a mere trace."

"What if I truly become a tyrant?"

"Then I will still be the sharpest sword in Your Highness's hand."

Reading guide:

1. The leads' love is restrained at first. They both like each other, but can't help feeling inferior while the other is at the height of their power.

2. Both leads are strong, but at first neither has control over their own circumstances. Give them time to grow.

3. Their actual romance begins once they are adults. Their feelings before adulthood are just the first stirrings of love.

Theme: The ultimate tearing apart of reason and emotion.