Li Yanqing, the only daughter of the governor of Shuzhou, was suddenly summoned to Chang'an after her three successive fiances all died.
She was to be welcomed into her ancestral family, but there was also an imperial marriage decree: she was to marry Yang Yanshi, the sickly fourth prince and Prince of Qin, to bring him good fortune.
Li Yanqing was thrown into a panic.
Before coming to Chang'an, a sudden, strange illness had forced her to spend the night of a full moon
with a handsome young man whose face was as flawless as jade.
She slipped away before dawn, hoping he would vanish from her life forever.
On her wedding night with Yang Yanshi, Li Yanqing was stunned.
How had the man she'd shared a passionate night with in Shuzhou turned out to be her new husband?
But Yang Yanshi was not only as weak and frail as the rumors claimed, he also looked at her with such cool detachment that it seemed he couldn't possibly have been the man from that night.
Everyone knew the Prince of Qin and his princess were at odds.
They slept in separate rooms. That suited her just fine. Yang Yanshi would never discover the shameful thing she'd done.
Until the next full moon. As usual, Li Yanqing took the bedding from the bed and prepared to sleep on the floor
when Yang Yanshi, who had always been cold toward her, suddenly pinned her down, his eyes bloodshot, one hand clamping around her pale wrist.
"My princess, it's been a while."
The next day, Yang Yanshi was once again cool and composed. Seeing the little red marks on her pale neck, he reached out and gripped his princess's chin.
For the first time, his usually unruffled eyes turned fierce.
"Tell me. Who did this?"
Later, as the struggle for the throne grew ever more intense,
on a night when the moon hung like a silver hook, blades flashed and battle cries filled the Prince of Zhao's residence, home of the third prince.
Witnesses saw the usually sickly Prince of Qin carrying his unconscious princess in his arms, sword in one hand, breaking through wave after wave of encirclement.
"Hurry, send for the imperial physician!" Blood still dripped from the Prince of Qin's sword tip.
"The princess is pregnant. If anything happens to her, everyone in the Prince of Zhao's residence will pay with their lives."
#A feigned invalid and hypocrite versus a vigorous, genuine villain
#Two madmen fighting over a wife who can never see them together
One-on-one romance, both leads' first time, happy ending
Theme: Cherish life