I Knew the Prince in His Youth

Updated daily at 9 p.m., with bonus chapters on weekends At sixteen, Gao Yuexing married His Highness the Prince of Xiang, the most powerful man in the capital. From then on, Gao Yuexing's life seemed to be blessed with a golden touch. Everything went her way, and she enjoyed every favor imaginable: from a sheltered young lady, to a prince's principal consort, and then to the most honored crown princess. The Prince of Xiang had no other women but her. She was surrounded by splendor and luxury, with prosperity blooming all around her. But Gao Yuexing alone saw things clearly. The Prince of Xiang had kept a handkerchief embroidered with crabapple blossoms close to his heart for years, never once letting it out of his sight. It was a young woman's possession, but it wasn't hers. After a calamity took her life, she was reborn in her childhood. Six-year-old Gao Yuexing, as lovely as a painted doll, looked at the handkerchief in her embroidery basket. The crabapple blossom was only half-finished, but its stitches were identical to those on the handkerchief the Prince of Xiang had kept hidden for half his life. She closed her eyes and sorted through her memories. She vaguely remembered the time before the New Year when she was six, and clearly remembered the family banquet for her ninth birthday. But she had not the slightest memory of the three years between the ages of six and nine. It was as if someone had plucked those memories right out of her mind. Next book: Palace of Pearls and Shells In her previous life, Fu Rongwei went from the illegitimate daughter of a marquis's household to Empress of All Under Heaven. Her life was full of hardship, yet also extraordinarily eventful. She was devoted to power and had nearly severed herself from all feeling. But in the end, she willingly gave up her own chance to live for a man. He was Jiang Xu, the young marshal of the Zhenbei Camp. That day, he led two thousand light cavalry through wind and snow to the capital to save the emperor. With a blade at her neck, Fu Rongwei stood atop the towering city wall and looked at him. She had never seen anyone with such spirit and brilliance. The rebels demanded one life for another: if he died, she would live. Meeting his earnest, passionate gaze, Fu Rongwei seized the rebels' blade before he could take his own life and drove it into her own neck. If there is another life, I want to live as freely and passionately as you do. Theme: Never forget who you are