Ji Yuanying is the most beloved daughter of heaven in Western Wei.
She is the current Crown Prince’s full sister and has been pampered since childhood. The moment she was born, she was named the Princess Who Guards the Nation.
Then disaster strikes. The Crown Prince dies unexpectedly, and the throne is forced into the hands of the Noble Consort’s son. The proud phoenix falls into the mire.
The new emperor forces her to marry Zhao Zhuyan, the General Who Conquers the South.
Zhao Zhuyan is a rough-hewn warrior, born a commoner. Unrestrained and rebellious, he earned his position as a general through the countless lives taken by his sword.
He is both a god of war and a butcher.
On the day the marriage decree is issued, Ji Yuanying angrily throws down the wedding announcement.
After she is forced to marry him, she loathes him even more. She hates that he ignores propriety and is uneducated, and hates even more that he has no sense of decency and is utterly uncouth.
Whenever they are together, she never gives him a kind look.
She thinks they will spend the rest of their days detesting each other.
But one day, she sees him risk his future to shield her, standing firmly at her side. Suddenly, she realizes that perhaps he isn’t so bad after all.
She thinks that if they can weather their troubles together, she would be willing to live a quiet life with him behind closed doors, even if it means hardship.
But she never expects that, in the end, he will give her the whole world.
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Zhao Zhuyan is a rough-hewn man, full of blood and fire. He always thought he couldn’t stand pampered, delicate noble ladies.
Then he marries a princess who is picky, spoiled, and constantly ordering him around.
It’s only when her hand slaps him in bed as she warns him to show restraint that he realizes he’s fallen for a woman exactly like her.
He loves her so much that he only wants her to live as she pleases, proud and uninhibited.
No one is allowed to bully her, not even the ruler of the world.
How could his phoenix ever be allowed to fall into the mire?
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A proud, imperious princess who says one thing and does another x a rough warrior general who serves without question
One-on-one romance, both are each other’s first and only partner
Theme: Love takes effort to nurture.
