Synopsis
Female lead reborn | Second male lead takes the lead
Everyone said that the heir of the Marquis of Duanning was refined, upright, and exceptionally talented, and that he was unwaveringly devoted to the Grand Princess. He was the perfect husband.
Even Ji Fuyin herself thought so.
Until the night of her father's funeral, when her younger brother staged a rebellion and the heir, who claimed to love her more than life itself, sent her to the execution grounds and personally ordered her to be torn apart by chariots.
Only then did she learn that the heir had secretly been seeing someone without a proper matchmaker, and had been lying low all this time to climb to the top. Her concubine and half-sister had schemed for years, turning the emperor against his eldest son and earning her father's hatred, until he died in disgrace. At some point, someone had impersonated her younger brother, and now his fate was unknown...
When she opened her eyes again, she had returned to the time before her wedding.
Back then, everyone had been happy for her, celebrating that she would have a wonderful husband and spend a lifetime in love with him.
The funeral banners and bloody shadows were still vivid in her mind. The treachery of men and women still seemed to play out before her eyes.
This time, she would shatter the heir's false show of affection with her own hands, crush the concubine's wolfish ambition, and expose her half-sister's fake innocence.
She set fire to the imperial decree she had once personally petitioned for, which granted her future husband permission to enter official service, and watched the flames devour it until nothing was left but ash. "There is no precedent for this. What a shame about the heir's grand ambitions."
Let's start with the official career you were so proud of in your previous life.
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Everyone across the Six Provinces knew that Great Zhou had an extraordinary young general of remarkable talent and bearing. For years, he had guarded the border like a ferocious wolf, protecting every corner of Great Zhou's territory.
In the twenty-third year of Great Zhou, the young general received an imperial summons to return to the capital.
Countless nobles and high officials came to call, each with their own agenda. They hoped to join their families to his through marriage and secure their household's prosperity.
But the general kept his doors firmly shut, and none could get an audience.
What no one knew was that this young general, who had stood firm on the battlefield against a million troops and the temptations of the enemy's riches and women,
held in his heart a secret yearning from his youth that he could never speak of.
For her sake, he tried to hide the blood and grime clinging to him. He willingly endured the world's contempt, becoming a sharp blade held only in her hand.
[Short Scene]
One day, a deserter from an enemy state fled into Great Zhou and happened upon the Grand Princess's carriage. He heard the commoners discussing the aide who clung to the Grand Princess, their words full of envy and contempt.
The deserter sneered inwardly. An aide? The people had turned the fact that their Grand Princess kept a male favorite into idle gossip.
But he couldn't resist peeking in...
Through a gap in the window that hadn't been fully shut, he saw the General of Death, who had once scared him into fleeing the battlefield with his tail between his legs. Now he looked like a bookish young man who had never been stained by bloodshed, holding the princess by her slender waist and pinning her against the carriage bed.
The brows that should have been cold and murderous were now overflowing with tenderness. Their noses touched, their breaths mingled, and even the corner of his mouth was filled with uninhibited warmth. "Your Highness may bully your servant like this too."
Blurb written on August 30, 2022.
An entirely fictional setting. Very fictional.
One-on-one romance. The female lead was not a virgin in her previous life, while the male lead has always been one.
A down-to-earth story about an unrequited crush.
The title and blurb may change, but the core won't.
Theme: If you have a choice, be yourself.
