I Finished Winning Myself Over

At a flower-viewing banquet, the emperor fell in love with my elder sister at first sight. He ignored her betrothal and forcibly summoned her to the palace, making her his empress.

Three years later, when He Zhuyun returned to the capital after traveling with her master, she heard that her elder sister had killed the Noble Consort's child to win the emperor's favor and used witchcraft to curse him. Her title had been revoked, and she had died by suicide in the Cold Palace. Their whole family had also been exterminated because of the witchcraft case.

He Zhuyun escaped that fate because she was not listed in the family genealogy. To avenge her family's murder and clear her sister's name, she had no choice but to set aside women's clothes, disguise herself as a man, and sit for the imperial examinations.

Who could have guessed that on the very day she passed the exams and became the top scholar, the Minister of Justice, who had overseen the execution of her entire family, would take a liking to her at the Qionglin Banquet and accept her as his adopted son? Then the daughter of her enemy would take a fancy to her, and the emperor would grant a marriage, making her the enemy's son-in-law!

Yan Yuanzhi was the legitimate daughter of the Prime Minister, but her father showed her little affection. Her fiancé was carrying on with her half-sister, and to cover up the family's disgrace, her father planned to find her another husband.

She didn't like that fiancé anyway. If her half-sister wanted him, she could have him. Yan Yuanzhi had set her sights on the top scholar, He Zhuyun, with his elegant bearing and looks to rival Pan An!

But after they married, her husband treated her with icy indifference. At first, Yan Yuanzhi thought it was because she had been engaged before. Only later did she discover that her husband had a deep, blood-soaked grudge against the Yan family!

Yan Yuanzhi was caught between a rock and a hard place. If she exposed her husband, her father would surely have him killed. But if she kept his secret, the entire Yan family would be doomed.

After weighing her beloved husband against her own father for a long while, Yan Yuanzhi decisively chose her husband.

Just when she had finally managed to convince herself she'd made the right choice, she discovered an even bigger secret about her husband: her husband seemed to be a woman!!!

Yan Yuanzhi: "So she's a woman. Fine! I was willing to give up my own father, so what's one woman? Let's do this!"

Theme: No matter what kind of hardship you face, never give up easily!