Marrying a Mongol Man

[New novel out now: Her Highness the Crown Prince's Favorite Maid Has Run Away. Please add it to your want-to-read list!] [Blurb One:] Drink the strongest liquor Marry the strongest lover He becomes king for me I dress him in imperial robes [Blurb Two:] Ling Song'er, the eldest princess of the Munan Kingdom, had been able to divine good and bad fortune since childhood. At fourteen, she cast a fortune for herself. Her fate was immensely noble, but she would not live past nineteen. There was only one variable, in the north. The land was in turmoil, and Ling Song'er's father sent her to marry into the Great Mongol Khan's camp. When Abul returned to camp for a bonfire feast, Ling Song'er was told to choose from among the three princes. Her divination came up with an even number, an auspicious sign, and the two were married on the spot. With only three years left by her reckoning, she had thought they would share meals for three years and then go their separate ways, so Ling Song'er took things as they came. But the man held a blazing fire in his heart and treasured her above all else. Several times, death passed them by. He crossed the river with her on a warhorse and defended his people for her. Ling Song'er, in turn, stood by him through victory and defeat, helped him turn danger into safety, and opened a great trade route between Munan and the grasslands. The day he ascended the throne, she presented him with a magnificent brocade robe embroidered with silk from the Munan Kingdom. [Pampered and free-spirited eldest princess X passionate and powerful Great Khan] [One-on-one romance, love before marriage, hand in hand as they ride the waves across the grasslands] [Happy ending, a little slow to warm up. I adore the male lead, and I adore the female lead too. They're both my precious babies, so don't worry!] [Little Scene:] The day after their wedding, He Erzhen went to train his troops wearing the battle robe Ling Song'er had newly embroidered for him. Two deputy generals spotted it. Zhe Yan ventured cautiously, "He Erzhen... That little embroidered design on your robe is quite unusual!" Na Duo spoke bluntly: "Doesn't look like much of anything else to me. Looks like a cat?" He Erzhen said coldly, "The princess said it's the auspicious beast on the uniforms of Munan's military officers... a Qiongqi." Later, when he accompanied her back to the capital, He Erzhen saw the official uniforms of Munan. In front of the two deputy generals, he demanded, "Princess, the Qiongqi looks like this. What did you embroider for me?" "..." Ling Song'er pressed a hand to her forehead and leaned into his arms. "Meng-ge, I'm so tired... Why don't we rest first?" [Note:] 1. The heroine smokes a water pipe early on for a reason. The hero will eventually persuade her to quit. [The new novel is out now: Her Highness the Crown Prince's Favorite Maid Has Run Away. Please add it to your favorites!] Crown Prince Ling Mo was a refined gentleman, with the face of a handsome young noble. Only Changqing knew there was another face hidden beneath that one. As Ling Mo's personal maid, Changqing looked after the prince's daily needs and served him in bed every night. That was already a lot of work, but the regent outside the palace kept pressuring her every day to break up the Crown Prince and the chief minister's daughter, who were a perfect match. The workload was heavy, and the pay was unfair. Then, one night, Changqing dreamed ten years into the future and saw how her life would end: although she became Ling Mo's crown princess, the chief minister's daughter caused her to miscarry, and she never had a child. Her noble Crown Prince, meanwhile, died in battle. Before he died, he gave her a vial of poison so she could join him in death... So Changqing made up her mind: she had to leave. She was afraid of pain and afraid of dying. She had no grand ambitions and only wanted to bring her exiled parents home and live in peace... Later, she really did leave. She left completely, without a single lingering attachment. Ling Mo searched every inch of the capital for her for seven days and seven nights. All he found were a few strands of hair on the bed. He clutched them in his palm and coughed up blood... Changqing saw Ling Mo again in Jiangnan. The handsome young man now had gray at his temples. She had become famous in Suzhou and Hangzhou for her skill at the zither, and had just won the favor of the son of the Governor-General of Liangjiang. The Crown Prince, who had never let her get a word in, now looked like a pathetic wretch in front of her. "Please don't leave me alone again. Will you?" Changqing pretended to wipe away a tear. "Your Highness, Changqing and Young Master Jiang are in love with each other." Three days later, the Governor-General of Liangjiang was dismissed for embezzling disaster-relief funds. His family was dispossessed and exiled. Ling Mo's long eyes gleamed viciously as he smiled at Changqing. "Are you and Young Master Jiang still in love with each other?" [Little Scene:] At the New Year banquet, the Empress Dowager invited the Crown Prince to consider candidates for a secondary consort. The daughter of a third-rank minister came forward to dance, dazzling everyone present. When the dance was over, the Empress Dowager asked Ling Mo, "What do you think, Crown Prince?" Ling Mo tossed out eight icy words: "Vulgar and coquettish. Not worth mentioning." The noble young ladies were dumbfounded. The Crown Prince was so utterly devoid of tenderness. Marrying into the Eastern Palace must be nothing but misery. Several days later, Changqing performed a swirling Hu dance for the Crown Prince in the Eastern Palace. "Changqing has been vulgar and coquettish for once, Your Highness. Do you like it?" Ling Mo instead pulled her into his arms. "I like it very much." [Gentle and mild scheming beauty X ruthless, jealous, and coquettish future emperor] [One-on-one romance, both leads reborn, the heroine's memories are rather hazy] [The hero has no other women in either of his two lives. The heroine faces a chaotic romantic situation early on, and the hero faces one later.] Theme: The life of a princess sent to marry abroad who opens the Silk Road