My sister-in-law is the most unfortunate woman I've ever known.
A poor, illegitimate daughter blessed with breathtaking beauty, she married into the powerful Jiang family, where rumors and gossip never let up. She did everything she could, yet was still bullied at every turn. Even my brother took a new favorite and treated her with utter contempt.
The bad news: when she was pushed into the water, everyone saw it, and by custom, she had to be drowned in a pond.
The good news: the person who saved her was the Crown Prince.
My sister-in-law decided to marry the Crown Prince. As a woman who had transmigrated into a book, I couldn't hold back any longer. "Sister-in-law, you've chosen the wrong man! The emperor's true love is actually the Second Prince. The Crown Prince is just a cannon-fodder male supporting character. He's going to die..."
My sister-in-law gently closed her makeup case. In the mirror, her lips were red as cinnabar, and her face as serene as Guanyin's. In the same gentle voice she'd always used, she said, "It's all right, Susu. I'll enter the Eastern Palace first, then climb higher. Whoever holds power, I'll be his wife."
Those words were relayed to the Crown Prince exactly as spoken. He crushed the Buddhist beads in his hand and smiled faintly. "Hell is cold, and I am lonely. Promote her to Crown Princess."
Before outsiders, the Crown Prince and Crown Princess are the picture of a perfect couple.
Behind the phoenix curtains, a hand wearing a jade thumb ring strokes her pale face. "Why are you crying, Crown Princess? Weren't you enjoying yourself just now?"
No one could have guessed that my sister-in-law, who burned herself up for revenge, would, when the city fell, climb alone to the top of a tower in her frail state and gaze at the countless lights below. "I was born a reed. If I can protect the people here, then my life won't have been wasted."
And that the cold, heartless Crown Prince would turn his horse around and charge back, silver spear in hand, into the chaos to take her home. "You are a wildflower, and I am a puppet. Aren't we made for each other?"
* The sister-in-law is the heroine. Angsty, darkly passionate, with a little palace intrigue and political maneuvering, and a touch of two heroines supporting each other.
* Viperous little white rabbit x deranged hypocrite, they save each other.
Theme: Live life earnestly
