I Refuse to Be the Crown Princess

Yun Xiyu was reborn, back when he was still the “future crown princess.”

The good news: He had a noble identity and everyone loved him.

The bad news: Every prince loved him to the point of madness. A trip to the market could end with him shoved into a lake by jealous princes; on a hunt, he could be chased like prey. In the end, he died beneath a rain of arrows, and the new emperor, Zhou Hengzhi, took him away and locked him in an ice coffin to admire day and night.

Yun Xiyu: ...Whoever wants this blessing can have it! I don't!

From then on, he let loose. He embroidered mandarin ducks on the crown prince's clothes, drew chicks on the third prince's face, and even shaved the fourth prince's head. He successfully made every prince avoid him like the plague, and was eventually “exiled” to his maternal grandparents' home.

In Jiangnan, he forcefully wooed a cool and elegant scholar.

The scholar wore white, had black hair and jade-like features, and was so beautiful that Yun Xiyu couldn't resist. He lured him into bed.

But their good times didn't last. The emperor was gravely ill and summoned Yun Xiyu back to the capital to marry. He had no choice but to leave a heartless farewell letter and abandon the scholar.

He never imagined that after the emperor died and a tyrant ascended the throne, he would be summoned to the palace

In the main hall, the scholar he'd abandoned two months ago sat high above him, long lashes lowered over a faint shadow, cold and aloof as a snowy mountain.

I'm done for. The lover I abandoned is the tyrant who locked me in an ice coffin in my previous life!

Yun Xiyu remembered his previous life

To ascend the throne, Zhou Hengzhi had killed five princes. After becoming emperor, he was cruel and unpredictable, with a taste for drinking human blood. Everyone avoided him.

Yun Xiyu wanted to run, but before he could even reach the palace gates, he was captured and forced into a wedding that very night.

Beneath the red wedding canopy, Yun Xiyu opened his eyes in trepidation.

In the candlelight, the face that had smiled tenderly at him just a month ago now wore a faint smile, his gaze as deep as the night.

“I heard you didn't want to marry any of the princes?”

The once-gentle scholar, now a brutal ruler, lightly wound his fingers around Yun Xiyu's hair.

“If you don't want to be crown princess, then be empress.”

Yun Xiyu cried miserably: Is this really about whether I'm empress or crown princess?!

Theme: Love can overcome any obstacle.