Everyone said Jiang Wan was lucky. From birth, she was the precious legitimate princess of the Great Liang. At sixteen, she was admired by the Crown Prince of Great Qian, who asked for her hand in marriage. Their love was celebrated among the people.
But the world did not know that he married her only to use her as a medicinal ingredient. At the state banquet where the marriage was proposed, the person Shen Si had originally intended to marry was not her, but her third older sister, Jiang Yun, born to a concubine.
Back then, Shen Si brought the pregnant Jiang Yun to the Eastern Palace.
When Jiang Wan saw the divorce letter covered in black ink in Shen Si's hand, she was glad she had died before Jiang Yun could rise to power, preserving the last shred of dignity for the Great Liang imperial family.
When Jiang Wan opened her eyes again, she discovered that she had been reborn one month before her wedding.
One month later, the princess would marry.
Three days later, the wedding procession turned back.
Crown Prince Shen Si, clad in black armor and accompanied by a hundred thousand cavalry, camped outside the city gates. "Tell the ruler of Great Liang that I want only Princess Yongjia."
Shen Si thought Jiang Wan would marry him as his wife again, just as she had in her previous life. Then he discovered that the person in the bridal sedan had been replaced.
When he doubled back, Princess Yongjia was holding a flower-viewing banquet. Shen Si watched with his own eyes as Jiang Wan affectionately called a man who looked just like him, "A Si."
Si in A Si is pronounced the same as Si in Shen Si's name.
"I, Pei Si, envoy of Great Liang, have come especially to welcome Your Highness home."
"We respectfully welcome Your Highness back to your homeland, to your old capital."
For years, Pei Si had kept having the same dream, repeating the same two lines. The dream had become an obsession, and he longed to know which prince the figure in his dream was, so he could bring him back to Great Liang.
Until he saw the living, breathing Princess Yongjia at the flower-viewing banquet...
Reader's Guide
1. Male rivals competing for the heroine, with a substitute trope and a groveling pursuit after the breakup.
Theme: When you look back, your light boat has already passed ten thousand mountains
