After Being Forced to Marry the Princess

[The follow-up novel, The Commandery Princess After the Divorce, is now updating. Please add it to your collection, thanks!]

After the Great Qing's Princess An Gu, who could conquer on the battlefield, drive off foreign armies, and even silence a crying child at night, had outlived three prospective husbands, she received a fourth marriage match: Fang Jingci, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Personnel.

Before long, people throughout the court and the country were placing bets on how long the newly appointed future consort would survive.

But, to everyone's surprise, Vice Minister Fang not only made it to the wedding, but even enjoyed what could be called a happy married life.

Still, life kept throwing up trouble.

Aunt: As a daughter-in-law of the Fang family, you should serve your parents-in-law and tend to your husband. How can you gather every day to drink with such uncouth men?

Prince Consort Fang: As an elder, you should treat the younger generation kindly and respect the princess. How can you gossip behind people's backs like some petty market woman?

Aunt: ...

Minister of War: Princess An Gu is the Great Qing's guardian. She should put the country first, take up arms, and drive out its enemies. How can she stay home embroidering and tending plants like some sheltered young lady?

Prince Consort Fang: Minister, you're a man of the Great Qing. Aren't you ashamed to publicly expect a woman to go to war?

Minister of War: Well...

Prince Consort Fang: Your son is a man of the Great Qing, too. He should be willing to sacrifice himself for the country. Why not send him to lead the vanguard this time?

Minister of War: ...

The princess sat on the railing, holding a riding crop to her chin as she teased him casually. "Hey, Prince Consort, you defend and indulge me like this. Does that mean you like me a little?"

The prince consort silently lowered his gaze, the tips of his ears turning red. "...Your Highness, please watch what you say."

When love runs deep, even if it takes any means necessary, you won't let fate keep you apart.

Reader's guide: Entirely fictional, with no basis in fact. Please don't take it seriously!

*A rowdy princess who can silence a crying child at night x a pure-hearted prince consort who's a master strategist with a dark side*

Link to the upcoming novel The Commandery Princess After the Divorce

Blurb:

At the Qionghua Banquet, Jiaojiao, the beloved little darling of the Grand Princess, takes one look at Xu Kongyue, the young general of the Xu family, and falls for him.

Defying the Grand Princess's objections, Jiaojiao insists on marrying into the Xu family with an extravagant dowry. From then on, she puts aside her spoiled, domineering ways, serves her aunt and mother-in-law, and puts her husband first in everything.

But after three years of marriage, her in-laws dislike her, her sister-in-law makes things difficult, and her husband has not set foot in their bedroom since their wedding night. Even the most ardent heart gradually turns cold.

When Prince Yan rebels, Xu Kongyue personally throws the entire household of the Grand Princess into prison. Jiaojiao weeps until she has no tears left, yet still cannot save her parents. At last, she sees the truth, leaves a divorce agreement behind, and leaps from the hundred-foot-high palace wall.

Xu Kongyue, the young general of the Xu family, is as elegant as jade and has captured the hearts of countless young women in the vast city of Chang'an. So when the spoiled, headstrong young commandery princess from the Grand Princess's household suddenly latches onto him, countless people lament his misfortune.

Everyone thinks the young princess is relentlessly pursuing him, and even he almost believes it himself.

But then he sees that familiar figure leap from the hundred-foot-high palace wall. Blood bursts from his mouth, spilling onto the divorce agreement clutched tightly in his hands.

"Warning: A real groveling pursuit of the wife after the divorce"

Theme: When husband and wife stand together, their strength can break metal