With a sudden spring, the disheveled little princess dragged her quilt behind her and dashed to the desk. She grabbed a split-tipped brush and wet the bristles in her mouth.
That night, the little princess, who never applied herself to her studies, stayed up by lamplight, writing furiously.
By dawn, Jiang Yaozhi was perched on a chair, biting the brush as she stared blankly at the ink marks before her, which looked like a mess of ghosts and talismans.
According to what she had seen in her dream, when her elder brother the Crown Prince traveled south of the Yangtze, he met a great white lotus, no, a great beauty. He couldn't resist and, concealing his identity, began an affair with the young lady.
Her brother brought the white lotus back to the palace and took her in as a junior consort.
After that, the Eastern Palace saw a spectacular drama unfold: “The junior consort cries, and the senior concubine suffers. The junior consort flees, and the secondary consort is demoted. The junior consort smiles, and the Crown Princess, her sister-in-law, dies of sorrow.”
And that little junior consort ended up becoming the new Crown Princess, living happily ever after with her Crown Prince brother as the only two people in each other's lives??!!
Jiang Yaozhi ground her teeth in fury, biting the brush until its tip frayed and her lips turned black. Ah, she'd forgotten to wash the brush!
He bullied his own sister-in-law, doing something so shameless and disgraceful. Did her brother think Father and Mother were already dead?
As she plotted how to poison her brother's name in front of their father, her eyes fell on another name.
Huo Yunji, the younger brother of her Crown Princess sister-in-law, her sworn enemy, and the “traitorous rebel” in that drama who, after his sister-in-law's untimely death, broke off his betrothal to her and became the Crown Prince's nemesis.
She'd wanted to break off the engagement for ages, but he was her childhood friend!
She wasn't the sort of heartless person who would turn around and betray her childhood sweetheart like her brother.
She had to help Huo Yunji get even!
Rubbing her chin, Jiang Yaozhi slipped out of the palace and stopped Huo Yunji, who was slouched astride a fine horse with no decorum at all.
“Yunji, do you like white lotuses?”
Ever since he was little, Huo Yunji had known that, for the sake of the Huo family and Jiangbei, his elder sister would become the Crown Princess, and he would become the consort of Princess Liancheng.
He had held that tiny hand and watched over her until she came of age, yet still felt that his affection for her was nothing but dutiful pretense.
Until the day she looked up at him in the warm winter sun, his reflection in her eyes, and asked him:
“Yunji, do you like lotuses?”
At that moment, his heart pounded like a startled deer...
Reader's guide:
A quirky little princess VS a man who's a pro at saying one thing and meaning another
SC, fictional setting
Blurb revision 2 saved on 2025.04.16 (Starting to build up a stock of chapters~~)
Theme: Treat people sincerely. A true heart is precious
