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The Emperor of Da Liang had a dream of raging rivers, a collapsing sky, and a terrible omen.
The Grand Astrologer said that the person who could avert disaster was in Zhufang.
The emperor searched high and low but couldn't find them. Then, while passing Yongtai Temple in the south of the city, he suddenly realized that the person who could avert disaster was his long-lost ninth daughter.
To Wujiu, this was nothing more than a chance encounter everyone had seen coming.
She wasn't the lifeline the emperor had so desperately sought. She was a blade, long prepared to pierce his heart.
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Wujiu, the illegitimate daughter of the Marquis of Anfeng, spent three years playing the sweet, innocent girl at the manor. At last, someone took her in hand and placed the mask of a princess on her face.
The palace was a storm-tossed sea. Everything went according to plan. If anything had gone awry, it was only that the boy she had met as a child seemed not to remember her when they met again.
But no matter. She was a princess, an imperial daughter. There was no one she couldn't have.
She had spent too long walking through fire and brimstone. He was the brightest light in the dark of night.
A North Jin prince with a heavy responsibility slipped south in secret, disguising himself to move among the powerful. He thought his cover was flawless, but he could always feel a gaze fixed on him.
He made himself the bait and plotted his schemes, but only sank deeper and deeper himself. When he finally couldn't bear to let go, he discovered that she had mistaken him for someone else.
Reader's Guide:
1. A calculating beauty who plans every step × an ambitious prince who plays the pig to eat the tiger. 1v1, happy ending. Neither lead is perfect. Includes a possessive relationship, a pursuit-after-breakup arc, and plenty of angsty melodrama.
2. An alternate-history setting inspired by the Wei, Jin, and Northern and Southern Dynasties. Very loosely based on history; everything serves the plot.
3. Characters' views do not represent the author's own.
Theme: What matters is what you do.
