Before she turned sixteen, Li Yaoguang was the arrogant and domineering Ninth Princess.
She liked the top scholar, Xie Yi'an, and pursued him with great fanfare, obsessing over him and doing all kinds of absurd, laughable things for his sake.
She even rejected the marriage arranged for her as a child and, emulating Hong Fu's midnight elopement, offered herself to him, only to be scorned by Xie Yi'an as "shameless."
Back then, Li Yaoguang thought that heartbreak was probably the greatest pain she would ever experience. Little did she know that her life would be turned upside down overnight.
After turning sixteen, Li Yaoguang became a younger sister who had to atone for her sins and shoulder her elder brother's fate.
She put away all her arrogance and learned to humble herself to win over the great clans. To free her imperial brother from house arrest, she even gave serious thought to marrying a widower ten years her senior in exchange for his support.
She thought this was how her life would be from then on.
Little did she expect Xie Yi'an to break into her residence one night, grab her with red-rimmed eyes, and ask, "Why is it that you can flirt with me whenever you want, then leave whenever you want?" He asked, word by word, "Why?"
Xie Yi'an forcibly married her.
Later, Li Yaoguang came across a line in a book: "With such deep hatred and grievances, if they cannot be avenged, then in this life they are destined to be husband and wife." She thought that she and Xie Yi'an were just like that. Their hatred grew so intense that it became a love neither of them could understand or untangle.
Reader's Guide: 1. "With such deep hatred and grievances, if they cannot be avenged, then in this life they are destined to be husband and wife" is from The Story of a Marriage That Awakens the World.
2. In the first half, the heroine pursues the hero and throws herself at him. In the second half, the hero pursues the heroine. I'm trying my hand at writing a sweeping, dramatic story.
Theme: This love should have become a cherished memory, but even then, I was already lost.
