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Heroine: Clear-headed, decisive, career-focused, and bent on revenge, like a black lotus
Hero: Cold and aloof on the surface, but secretly cunning, protective of his wife, and extremely jealous
Zhuang Shuting, eldest legitimate daughter of the Grand General Who Assists the State, lost her protection after her mother died young and her father remarried. She was relegated to a remote corner of the general's residence.
She never fought for anything. Apart from the constant torment of her stepmother and stepsister, her life was just about bearable.
Who could have known that her father, a general who had never lost a battle, would be framed for treason after a defeat and die miserably in prison?
The general's residence was then massacred.
To preserve her virtue, she disfigured herself and died beneath a dagger.
Unexpectedly, she was reborn one year earlier.
To avenge her family's slaughter, she threw caution to the wind and stole the powerful man her stepmother and stepsister had set their sights on: Huan Zhaoye, the third prince of the Chaoyuan Kingdom.
Because he was the enemy who had wiped out her family: Huan Zhaoye.
She asked the Empress Dowager to grant her a marriage to Huan Zhaoye. For his sake, she painfully gave up the man she held dear and focused all her efforts on winning Huan Zhaoye's favor, hoping to gain his trust and find a chance to take his life.
She never expected to have mistaken the identity of her enemy, or that Huan Zhaoye had someone else in his heart.
Zhuang Shuting gazed coolly at Huan Zhaoye, thinking of the man who listened to the zither.
Once I've avenged my family's slaughter, I'll ask Father to send a matchmaker to the zither house to find that man and arrange a marriage for me.
Huan Zhaoye's face darkened as he held her tightly in his arms. "Zhuang Shuting, do you think I'm someone you can take when you want me and discard when you're done?"
Huan Zhaoye gripped Zhuang Shuting's wrist and frowned. "Who do you really like?"
Zhuang Shuting smiled. "My husband, I like you."
Huan Zhaoye pulled her into his arms and said bitterly, "Zhuang Shuting, how many of your words are actually sincere?"
[Content notes and guide]
1. Both leads have no prior romantic or sexual partners
2. Happy ending
3. The leads are each other's cherished first love
4. Fictional setting with original details. Please don't nitpick historical accuracy.
Theme: Love is unwavering
Unknowingly, I wrote 100,000 words. I wanted to draw a prize to give back to the readers, but I didn't qualify. I will draw again when I am qualified, hahahahaha