Three Thousand Miles to Hunt Down My Ex-Husband

A headstrong princess × a lovesick heir

Chi Jin was a princess raised in luxury, who had never known sorrow. There was only one person who could make her lose her appetite and lie awake all night. So she decided to kill him.

Poisoning was a coward’s way out, hiring an assassin meant hiding her hand, and asking for an imperial decree would make her seem like a bully abusing her power. So Chi Jin led a prized steed by the reins, took a royal sword, and rode alone three thousand li. On a rainy night, she went to claim his life.

She had rehearsed every word she would say as the blade slit his throat, but there was one thing she’d overlooked: the man she intended to kill was the heir of Duke Dingguo, raised in a border military camp since childhood. She couldn’t beat him.

In an instant, her long sword was knocked away. The next moment, a sharp blade was at her throat. The situation was nothing like she had imagined, but since she’d come all this way, she had to grit her teeth and finish her prepared speech.

“Yan Zhuo, how dare you defy this princess! I’ll take your life!”

The hand holding the knife hesitated. “...That’s all this is about?”

“What else? Did you imagine I’d beg you to become my prince consort again?”

*

Yan Zhuo had grown up at the frontier, accustomed to an easygoing, carefree life. Then one day, he was abruptly summoned to the capital and inexplicably married to the domineering Third Princess.

Of all the unreasonable people he had ever met, she was the worst. She called him discourteous, complained that he was boring, and wouldn’t let him come within ten paces of her.

If they couldn’t stand the sight of each other, they might as well part ways and each find happiness.

Yan Zhuo secured an order for their divorce, at the price of being exiled to Youyun.

He thought he would spend the rest of his life with the solitary smoke of the desert and the bright moon over the borderlands for company. Who could have imagined that the delicate princess would come after him, even if it was to kill him?

Note: The male lead is sexually inexperienced.

Upcoming novel: She Made Me Become Her Concubine, a teasing noblewoman × a pure-hearted warlord

In the final years of the Ye Dynasty, the land was in turmoil and rebellions erupted everywhere.

People said that Grand Tutor Shi was a brilliant strategist, his eldest daughter was a favored consort of the emperor, his second daughter was the illustrious wife of a marquis, and the remaining illegitimate daughter was being used to place a bet on the next rising power in the Ye Dynasty.

Shi Liao arrived in Fanchuan with a lavish dowry, having been married off just after the rebellion there was put down. But the moment she lifted the bridal curtain, she discovered that her convenient husband had been swapped out.

Tsk. What a waste of the dagger she’d coated in poison.

The real husband was a sickly weakling who could barely stand and coughed every few steps. The fake husband wore pale clothes and makeup, but still couldn’t hide his muscular physique. The real husband was debauched, with a house full of maids and concubines. The fake husband blushed at the slightest flirtation.

With leverage over him, he couldn’t kill her, refuse the marriage, or even escape her advances.

Outside the screen, a group of strategists waited at the ready.

Inside, Shi Liao lifted a fingertip. Her cool skin traced the bobbing of his throat, and she gazed with satisfaction at his aroused yet restrained expression, coaxing and cajoling him with a promise:

“You’ll only be the real one if you can please me.”

*

Wei Yue knew from the start that she had come with bad intentions.

Before he even saw her beautiful face, he spotted the dagger hidden in her sleeve, coated in poison and deadly with a single cut.

He prepared to dance with the devil, reminding himself again and again what a snake-hearted woman she was and that he must never trust her. But when she kept drawing him into intimate embraces, he couldn’t help thinking that even if nine-tenths of it was pretense, perhaps one-tenth might be real.

But she had no genuine feelings for him.

She coaxed him into becoming her nameless, unrecognized concubine. Then she turned around and used his seal of authority to become someone else’s concubine.

He was so furious his teeth ached. He used every trick she had ever used on him against her.

Outside the city, two armies faced off, and the flames of war still burned.

Inside the city, Shi Liao’s wrists were pinned behind her back and she was pressed against a bookcase. Bamboo slips scattered to the floor.

“I’ve been pleasing you for so long. Now it’s your turn.”

Note: The male lead is sexually inexperienced.

Theme: Moving from a small self to a greater self, and finding one’s own value.