After Becoming a Princess Sent Away for a Political Marriage

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Su Yiqing was the only daughter of the renowned military Su family of the Song Kingdom, graceful and gentle from a young age.

She became an orphan at six. The emperor bestowed upon her the title of princess of a different surname and brought her into the palace, where the empress raised her personally. She and Crown Prince Song Fengcheng grew up together as childhood sweethearts.

In the cold inner palace, Su Yiqing and Song Fengcheng were once each other's only source of warmth.

On the crown prince's twentieth birthday, beneath a sky full of fireworks, Song Fengcheng embraced her from behind and said in a deep voice, "Yiqing, from now on, I want you by my side every year, forever. Of three thousand beauties, I want only you."

She turned to look at him. The dazzling lights seemed reflected in her eyes as she smiled tenderly. "All right."

A year later, the Northern Yi invaded the borders of the Song Kingdom. After years of peace and comfort, the Song forces suffered defeat after defeat.

Emperor Song ordered Song Fengcheng to marry Meng Wanru, the beloved daughter of General Meng, a great Song commander. He also agreed to the Northern Yi's request for a political marriage.

The Northern Yi had always been a barbaric land. Rumor had it that their king, Meng En, was a fiend who drank human blood.

Uneasy, Su Yiqing went to find Song Fengcheng, only to hear the empress discussing with him how she could be sent to marry in place of the empress's own daughter.

Song Fengcheng remained silent. In the end, he said only, "I'll leave it to Mother to decide."

The day Su Yiqing left for the Northern Yi, a light drizzle fell beneath a gloomy gray sky.

Dressed in a crimson wedding gown, she climbed into her phoenix carriage. Before leaving, she looked back at the crown prince and his new wife, who had come to see her off. Pressing her red lips together, she laughed. "I have done everything I could for you and for the Song Kingdom. The Su family and I owe you nothing."

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Three years later, Song Fengcheng suddenly appeared in the Northern Yi and was brought before Su Yiqing, now the Northern Yi king's consort.

Once elegant and imposing, Song Fengcheng now stood with a humble bearing, travel-worn and dusty. His voice was hoarse. "Yiqing, I was wrong. Come back, please..."

High above him, the consort's expression remained calm and indifferent. When she saw a tall, handsome figure riding toward her from afar, she smiled sweetly.

Ignoring Song Fengcheng's wretched state, Su Yiqing lifted her skirt and hurried out to meet him. The Northern Yi king, Meng En, strode over and drew her into his arms.

Meng En tightened his hold around Su Yiqing's slender waist, the corners of his lips curling into a smile. "While I was away these past few days, did you miss me, my queen?"

"No," Su Yiqing said, pretending to be angry.

"Then what am I to do? I've missed you terribly." Meng En burst out laughing, lifted Su Yiqing onto his horse, and held her close in front of him.

His long, phoenix-shaped eyes swept over Song Fengcheng. He leaned close to Su Yiqing's ear and asked, "Is that the Crown Prince of Song?"

Leaning against Meng En's broad, warm chest, Su Yiqing answered unconcernedly, "He's no one to me."

Song Fengcheng is not the male lead. He gets burned to ashes in the wife-chasing crematorium.

SC, wife-chasing crematorium, second male lead takes the crown

The dynasty is fictional. Everything is in service of the story!

The cover is authorized. Artist: Zhai Yi Zhi, Shili Changhuan

My upcoming novel, The Fallen Princess Is Reborn, is listed in my author profile.

Blurb:

Everyone in Shengyang City knows that Song Waner, the youngest daughter of the current Song emperor, has fallen for Zhao Feng'an, a hostage prince from the Zhao Kingdom.

Song Wan'er was raised in luxury, as delicate and fresh as a flower.

Yet for Zhao Feng'an, she moved into his shabby dwelling and even cooked for him, all in the hope of winning a single glance from him.

Even though he was a hostage from a weak, small kingdom, even though he could barely protect himself in the Great Song.

When people felt sorry for her, Song Wan'er pressed her lips into a smile and said, "I am happy to do it."

The Song emperor couldn't bear to see his daughter suffer, and at last accepted Zhao Feng'an and took him as his son-in-law.

What no one expected was that three years later, Zhao Feng'an colluded with forces within and beyond the Zhao Kingdom, and the Zhao army breached the gates of the Song capital.

On the day the kingdom fell, Song Wan'er climbed the city wall in the red wedding gown she had worn three years earlier. Facing Zhao Feng'an, who stood silently in the distance, she spoke with determination, her usually tender gaze veiled by hatred. "Zhao Feng'an, I have nothing to say to you. I ask only one thing: may my life be exchanged for the lives of everyone in this city."

With those words, she leapt from the towering wall. Her crimson wedding gown seemed to carve a streak of fire through the air.

Song Wan'er did not see Zhao Feng'an, usually so cool and composed, his eyes bloodshot as he ran toward her in panic.

When Song Wan'er opened her eyes again, she discovered she had been reborn on the day she first met Zhao Feng'an.

She was once more the carefree little princess of the Song Kingdom.

At this royal banquet, Song Wan'er never once looked at Zhao Feng'an. As a result, she never noticed the scorching gaze he fixed on her.

1. Both leads are reborn.

2. The male lead has a hidden reason for his actions in his past life. In this life, he can't have her, and his love drives him mad.

3. SC, HE

Theme: There is always hope.