The Prince Won't Let Go

Novel blurb:

(Marriage before love, a frail princess consort with little time left × a cold, calculating prince)

Everyone says that a great general whose achievements threaten the throne is doomed to a bad end. Her father proved that all too well. Accused of colluding with the enemy and betraying his country, he left his clan facing disaster. To save her relatives from prison, she strikes a deal with Ling Yun, the emperor's third son and the current Prince of Li.

Prince Li rose to fame at a young age. Both a scholar and a warrior, he is also as handsome as a jade sculpture. Though his cold, murderous aura keeps people at a distance, countless young ladies in the capital adore him. Yet this favored son of heaven was ambushed by the enemy at eighteen. His grievous wounds proved impossible to heal, and he withdrew to the Prince of Li's residence. Everyone says he is gravely ill and won't live much longer.

After Xu Shuwan makes her deal with Ling Yun, her family is finally saved. But then Ling Yun proposes another deal.

After two years in seclusion, Prince Li suddenly appears at court!

The dashing Prince Li openly asks to marry a young lady from the Xu family!

Prince Li and that young lady from the Xu family really are getting married!

Xu Shuwan marries into the Prince of Li's residence amid the tearful well-wishes of a crowd of young ladies.

And her life has already begun its countdown.

So what if I have to snatch you from the King of Hell? I will never let go of your hand, not even if I have to search heaven and earth, from the highest skies to the deepest underworld!

Bonus scene:

After claiming the emperor's throne, Ling Yun proudly sets out to bring his wife to the palace, only to find her packing her bags, ready to slip away.

“What are you doing?”

Xu Shuwan pats her perfectly packed bundle with satisfaction. “Packing to go back to my hometown!”

Ling Yun's face darkens with disbelief. “After everything you've done to me, you're not going to take responsibility? You're leaving me and going back to your hometown?”

“What have I done to you? Don't make things up!”

“Am I making things up? Then let me refresh your memory.”

Reading guide:

* Marriage before love, both leads have no prior romantic or sexual experience, a little love-triangle tension

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Blurb:

Mu Shile is struck through the heart by an enemy arrow on the battlefield. As she falls, she meets a pair of icy eyes. All she can think is: What a handsome face, and what a vicious hand!

When she opens her eyes again, three years have passed, and she has become Murong Xi, daughter of the enemy nation's great general. After sorting through the jumbled memories in her head, Murong Xi struggles to sit up. She raises a weak hand to her chest and sighs.

Murong Xi was born frail. When she was young, a seer declared that she would bring misfortune to her parents, so the old madam sent her to be raised at a Taoist temple. The temple's resources were limited, and though the general's household provided financial support, Murong Xi's health continued to decline.

As it happens, Murong Xi's father is the great general Murong Zhen, the man who killed her older brother before dying alongside her own father. After sitting for just a little while, Murong Xi feels all her strength drain away and falls back onto the bed.

She might as well have died for good!

On the day the old madam brings her back to the estate, her fiance makes a grand show of breaking off their engagement, humiliating the entire marquis's household. And her debauched, good-for-nothing brother is, as luck would have it, the pretty boy whom his older brother beat to a pulp on the battlefield three years ago, leaving him questioning his very existence.

Murong Xi closes her eyes in despair.

What a headache!

Out of respect for the family of a loyal martyr, the emperor can't bear to see her plight and arranges another marriage for Murong Xi.

Wait, why does this fiance look so familiar? Oh, right! He's the prince of the enemy nation who shot an arrow through her heart and sent her to the underworld.

Oh, heavens! Are you messing with me?

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