My Lord Insists on Forming an Alliance with Me (Reborn)

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Blurb:

A decisive, power-grabbing princess who appears innocent but is ruthless beneath the surface × a handsome, scheming, and strategic young lord of a marquis's residence

Shang Rong, the Grand Princess of Jing, was blessed with exceptional talent and beauty. Gifted and clever from a young age, she had memorized the classics by the age of three, earning the emperor's praise and becoming a beloved tale among the people.

Yet when she was four, her mother, the empress, passed away. From then on, she was treated with cold indifference and ostracized. Because she failed to see through people and believed their slander, her temperament changed drastically overnight. Weak, incompetent, and uneducated, she became a "pretty ornament" whom everyone despised.

Later, cast aside as a pawn, she was forced to marry into a foreign land to secure peace. The two countries declared war the very next day, and she became a prisoner and a hostage on the battlefield. By the time she came to her senses, it was too late.

Fortunately, Heaven took pity on her, giving her a chance to live again. When she awoke, an old enemy had set a trap and forced her into their game. But she repaid blood with blood and refused to back down, dragging her foe into an endless hell instead!

She opens a fragrance house, intent on teaching women to fish for themselves and bringing them a better life.

She knows that this time, she will live for herself alone, and save only those who suffer as she once did.

Amidst treacherous, ever-shifting circumstances, she fears nothing and meets every move with a countermove.

Wei Xiuxun, the third young lord of the Marquis of Jin'an's residence, has a strikingly beautiful, almost bewitching appearance and is a notorious playboy in the capital. Yet only Shang Rong knows that in her previous life, he inherited the title despite being a concubine-born son. He was exceptionally calculating and strategic, and not someone to trifle with.

This time, she had meant to fight her way out alone, but he showed up uninvited and instead became her ally.

When they first met, he said, "It's been a long time. Your Highness seems a little different from before."

At the time, she didn't understand and thought he was just making conversation.

Later, he would often ask, "Why are you afraid of me, Your Highness?"

But she never knew that on that freezing autumn day in Xicha, she had lain in his arms as her body slowly grew cold.

At the edge of the cliff, the red-eyed man removed his blood-soaked armor and drove the phoenix hairpin, its six pearls and gold filigree stained with her now-dried blood, into his own chest.

From then on, the setting sun was like blood, and it never shone upon the road home.

Reader's Guide:

A feel-good power fantasy with a strong female lead, and a happy ending for both

Theme: Women, too, can achieve great deeds and have their names remembered