My Love-Hate Relationship with the Heir

[The blurb is written in first person; the story is written in third person]

[An obsessive, ruthless man with two faces x a remarkably talented actress who keeps her pain hidden]

The entire Huo family died on the battlefield. The emperor took pity on me and ordered that, once my mourning period ended, I go to the capital so he could choose a suitable husband for me.

How laughable. If it weren't for the foolish emperor and his treacherous ministers, they would never have had to die.

I study medicine and practice martial arts, intent on becoming a concubine, entering the imperial harem, and killing every member of the royal family.

The capital is a den of danger. I was ambushed, and in desperation, I knocked out Xie Yuhan, the dog emperor's most beloved nephew, and tumbled with him behind the bed curtains.

To preserve my reputation, Xie Yuhan asked the emperor to grant us a marriage.

I hear Xie Yuhan had a first love who died young. What a coincidence. I have one too, and Xie Yuhan looks seven parts like him.

On the eve of my wedding, I was ambushed by bandits while praying at a shrine. A precious sword gleamed coldly against my throat.

Xie Yuhan wanted to kill me.

To avoid further complications, he eventually let me go.

After marrying into the prince's residence, I did my utmost to play the brainless heir's wife, besotted with his beauty, jealous and possessive, and madly in love with Xie Yuhan. Night after night, I entangled myself with him.

I feigned innocence and drank bowl after bowl of tonic laced with contraceptive medicine.

The medicine was bitter.

I really wanted to come clean with him. I'd injured my internal organs on the battlefield and could never have children.

He didn't need to go to all that trouble.

Xie Yuhan isn't the handsome, jade-faced gentleman of every young woman's dreams in the capital.

He's a bloodthirsty Asura with the ambition of a wolf, perfectly matched with me.

We both want to kill the dog emperor.

After ascending to the throne,

he looked at me tenderly.

"My beloved wife, what do you wish for?"

I smiled brightly. "I want beauties, and I want the realm."

"Please take many concubines, Your Majesty, and give me a child."

Xie Yuhan laughed in fury. "Don't even think about it!"

"Huo Jingning, do you even have a heart?"

[The blurb has been screenshotted]

Theme: Changing things together, moving forward side by side