[Angsty, melodramatic style. Don't read if that's not your thing.]
On the day Princess Hua Qingwan of Ningyuan returned to the palace, the officials paid tribute and the people rejoiced.
No one knew that she had once spent eight years as a maid in the Zhou household of Yangzhou.
That winter, she was so cold on the street that she was barely alive. The young lady of the Zhou family in Yangzhou took her home and named her "Xin'er."
Xin'er had promised to stay by her young lady's side for all eternity, but the young lady thought it was just childish talk.
On the night before the young lady's wedding, Xin'er climbed into her bed.
She stared straight at her, a bitter smile on her lips.
"Young Lady, you promised we'd be together for all eternity."
The young lady slapped her and drove her out of the house.
At the Qianqiu Banquet, a female record-keeper broke the wine cup in front of her.
It was Zhou Ling'e, the woman who had once been her "young lady."
Hua Qingwan watched her kneel on the floor, hair disheveled, forehead pressed to the gold-woven carpet, her whole body trembling.
She gave a cold laugh and demoted her to the laundry bureau.
She thought, You deserve this.
But she never imagined that even when Zhou Ling'e was nearly frozen to death in the snow, she would cling to her ankle and say, "There's something I want to say to the princess in private."
Hua Qingwan thought that if she punished Zhou, humiliated her, and made her kneel in the snow to wash clothes, she would eventually lower her head and admit she was wrong.
Only later did she realize that the debt they owed each other had long since become an inextricable mess.
Hua Qingwan didn't want Zhou dead. She wanted Zhou... to come to her of her own free will.
Cold, beautiful, and obsessive princess × awkward, gentle young lady
Warnings:
1. An old-fashioned flavor, a yuri version of the groveling-after-the-breakup trope, melodramatic angst, and both leads are each other's only partners.
2. Both female leads have been engaged by arrangement. Their fiancés never appear or play any role, and neither engagement will go through. Zhou drove Hua away because she couldn't face her feelings, not because of a fiancé. Don't read if this bothers you.
3. Includes supporting characters with male-female romantic orientations.
Theme: Cherish the people you love and live well.
It's so well written [Orange Candy] Come on, author
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Who is chasing whom in the crematorium of his wife?