Splendid Spring

[Complete] The emperor's most beloved Princess Pingyang made a huge fuss, threatening to die unless she got her way. At last, she persuaded the emperor to force Yan Zhaoting, the legitimate eldest son of the Duke of Ning's household, to become her husband. But on their wedding day, in the bridal chamber, Princess Pingyang woke from a nap, drew her sword, and pointed it at her husband's nose. "After thinking it over, I've decided you were completely unwilling to marry me!" Yan Zhaoting looked at the woman before him, with a face like a hibiscus flower and a slender, supple waist. His eyes held a hint of a smile, yet his palm closed firmly around hers. Then his voice suddenly turned hoarse. "We're already married, Your Highness. Are you still thinking of leaving me?" On their wedding night, Princess Pingyang led the servants of her residence in a grand procession back to the imperial palace. Once again, she kicked up a huge fuss, threatening to die unless she could get a divorce! * Coming next: Marrying the Ailing Crown Prince After the Divorce. You can add it to your favorites on the author's page first. The second male lead gets the girl. Mu Shiyi, legitimate daughter of the Marquis of Yong'an, had skin as smooth as jade and beauty that could topple a city. She was known as the most dazzling peony in the Great Yan kingdom. Fang Yanru, heir to the Duke of Fuguo, waited for her devotedly. At last, when Mu Shiyi came of age, he married her. Sadly, after three years of marriage, they had no children. One day, Fang Yanru cautiously brought home a pregnant woman from outside the residence. He claimed she was the orphaned daughter of a former classmate and that he was taking her in for a while. Everyone urged her to forgive the scoundrel and adopt the child. Mu Shiyi casually pulled out the divorce papers she'd prepared three years earlier and tossed them to Fang Yanru, who was kneeling at her feet. "Either you get out, or she dies!" Fang Yanru gritted his teeth and stood up. "Divorce! I will never kneel to you again for the rest of my life!" Years later, at a palace banquet, Fang Yanru, now the Duke of Fuguo, saw his former wife seated at the top of the golden hall. She wore a phoenix crown and was breathtakingly beautiful. He not only regretted it so much that his guts turned green and knelt before her, but had to kneel along with his entire family. * When Mu Shiyi, legitimate daughter of the Marquis of Yong'an, returned to her family after her divorce, everyone lamented that her peerless beauty had been bought at the cost of her health. She could not bear children, and would likely have to spend the rest of her life being kept as a pampered mistress. Who could have guessed that the chancellor's only son would send her a letter, the eldest grandson of the Duke of Zhenguo would break his leg for her, the heir to a prince's title would chase after her calling her sister-in-law, and even the Grand Princess would go out of her way to find her a match? Even Crown Prince Hua Heyu, who kept women at a distance and possessed a refined beauty so otherworldly that it was hard to find anyone in the mortal world who could rival an immortal, dragged his frail body through a snowy winter night, coughed up blood, and knelt before the Hall of Supreme Harmony for three days and three nights, all to marry Mu Shiyi. No one knew that Hua Heyu kept a beloved woman in his heart. He had thought she was forever beyond his reach, and that he would long for her until death. Who could have guessed that fate would ultimately favor him? Bonus scene 1: Ten years ago, after the empress died suddenly, Hua Heyu was sent to the border battlefield. He was ambushed by villains and poisoned, falling from the clouds into the dirt. In a daze, a little girl took his hand and said in a childish voice, "I overheard Father say that only if you survive will the generals at the border escape being implicated and executed. So I made a secret wish to the Bodhisattva, asking to split my life in half and give half to you." "Your Highness, you must live to be a hundred!" P.S.: * A powerful, tragic second male lead gets the girl; the scumbag chases his wife to the crematorium and is ground to dust. * An alternate-history ancient romance, mutual healing, one-on-one, happy ending, both leads' first relationship. Theme: