Your Highness, Mind Your Manners

[Shen Ke]

Everyone knows that His Highness the Prince of Qi is a cripple who can't walk properly. He's cruel and vicious, and, damn it, he's a jinx on his wives.

The emperor and empress dowager have arranged six marriages for him, and something has happened to the bride every time.

After remaining single for over twenty years, he finally marries Su Yaoyao, the one woman he can't jinx to death.

But before they can even enter the bridal chamber, he dies...

[Su Yaoyao]

In her previous life, Su Yaoyao loved Shen Ke with all her heart.

Three months after marrying him, Shen Ke gave her a divorce agreement. Then the new emperor ascended the throne, and Shen Ke died in the Dian River, his body never found. He was branded a traitor who had tried to usurp the throne.

Wearing her wedding gown, Su Yaoyao burned the divorce agreement, set the Prince of Qi's residence ablaze, and held Shen Ke's "urn of ashes" as she set herself on fire to prove her innocence.

When she awoke, she was back at fifteen, before any of it had happened.

She looked at Shen Ke, who no longer knew her, and made up her mind.

This time, no matter what, she would get him first!

[Blurb]

At the Mid-Autumn Palace Banquet, the empress dowager wants to arrange another marriage for the Prince of Qi. At this point, she might as well accept her fate.

The noble young ladies wish they could bury their faces in the table, begging heaven not to choose them.

Ignoring her father, who is frantically shaking his head at her, Su Yaoyao slams her hand on the table and stands.

"Choose me! Choose me! I'm practically indestructible!"

The empress dowager smiles. Her father cries. Su Yaoyao enters the Prince of Qi's residence with a wedding procession stretching ten miles.

From then on, the Prince of Qi's catchphrase is: "Miss Su, please behave yourself."

Su Yaoyao trails a finger over his chest with an exaggeratedly delicate gesture. "Call me your wife, and I'll behave."

The Prince of Qi lowers his eyes and coldly replies without expression, "In your dreams."

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When Shang Yu was fifteen, her entire family died on the battlefield.

Before her relatives' bodies had even grown cold, she accidentally discovered that the emperor had come under the pretense of paying his respects and sneaked into her brother and sister-in-law's bedroom.

The next day, Shang Yu was carried into the palace in a small sedan chair and bestowed the title of concubine, all in the name of honoring her.

It doesn't take a genius to know what comes next: the destruction of the entire Shang family!

Treason, rebellion, attempted usurpation. If they want to pin a crime on you, no excuse is too far-fetched.

Under the noose, she saw her sister-in-law lying coquettishly beneath the emperor: The Shang family's threat has been eliminated. When will Your Majesty bring me into the palace?

When she opened her eyes again, she was back at fourteen. The tragedy had not yet begun, and her family was still alive...

She plans to strike at the root of the problem and make the accusation against her stick.

She will rebel against the treacherous emperor and betray his realm!

But...

In the end, her ally ascends the throne, and she becomes the most powerful person in the land!

The truly most powerful person in the land...

Shang Yu feels she was being played from the start: The realm or me, choose one.

Shen Zhixing frowns, sensing something is off. "Who's the realm?"

Shang Yu: "Your most prized possession!"

Shen Zhixing: "???? Then obviously I want both."

Shang Jinyan: "No way!"

Shen Zhixing: "Let's try it and see..."

Later...

Shang Yu: "I have no proof, but I suspect you're being indecent."

Shen Zhixing: "No need to suspect. I've never been proper."

You don't know that you matter more to me than the realm.

I rose to the highest position in the land, and the only person I wanted to protect was you...

P.S.

1. The heroine is very tough! Extremely tough! Super smart, though occasionally a little silly.

2. The logic mostly exists to serve the plot. This is a fictional setting.

3. I'll add more if I think of anything.

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