Li Funian is the legitimate daughter of Prince Anping.
She is the beloved Princess Anyang, cherished by everyone.
Since childhood, she has loved Su Jiuzhao, heir to the Marquis of Qingyuan.
When she came of age, she asked the emperor for an imperial decree of marriage and, as she wished, married into the marquis's household.
But married life did not go as she had hoped.
Su Jiuzhao was busy with official duties and often spent the night in his study. She could barely even see him, let alone receive his concern and tenderness.
Li Funian thought he was simply bad at expressing himself, and that deep down, he still cared for her.
Until, six months into their marriage, he went south to provide disaster relief and returned with a woman.
Only then did she understand that he was not naturally cold. He simply did not love her.
Later, Su Jiuzhao elevated that woman to the status of a co-wife.
On the night the woman's red bridal sedan was carried into the marquis's residence, news arrived that Prince Anping had colluded with the enemy and plotted treason.
The Prince Anping's household was confiscated, and everyone except Li Funian, who had married out, was imprisoned.
With no one willing to hear her plea, Li Funian had no choice but to seek Su Jiuzhao.
In the bitter cold, she knelt all night at the Junlan Pavilion, but the door to the warm chamber never opened for her again.
The Prince Anping's household could not escape execution in its entirety.
On the day of the execution, Li Funian calmly gathered and buried her family.
When she had finished, she killed herself in front of their graves.
That day, snow fell as far as the eye could see.
The silver frost covering the ground was stained red with blood.
Until Li Funian died, Su Jiuzhao never appeared again.
When Li Funian opened her eyes again, she had been reborn in the year she came of age.
By coincidence, the Marquis of Qingyuan's household had come to present betrothal gifts.
Watching one glaring red box after another being carried into the room, Li Funian immediately ordered them thrown out of the prince's residence and rejected the match.
*
The moment Su Jiuzhao learned of Li Funian's death, regret tore him apart.
Reborn, he rushed to the Prince Anping's residence with betrothal gifts before the imperial marriage decree could even be issued.
Just as he thought he could make up for the mistakes of his past life, he learned that she had changed the intended groom to Xie Linyuan, the young general, a doomed man who would lead an army north and die on the battlefield.
Su Jiuzhao thought, then he would wait for Xie Linyuan to die in battle.
After that, he would beg the emperor's favor and marry Li Funian into his household.
Unexpectedly,
In this life, Li Funian avoided him as if he were a venomous snake.
And the news that reached the capital was not of Xie Linyuan's death, but of his great victory and imminent return to court.
*
Later,
The Marquis of Qingyuan was found guilty of colluding with the enemy and betraying the country. His entire clan was executed.
The day before the execution, Li Funian married.
The prison guards said the wedding of Princess Anyang and the great general was a magnificent affair.
The wedding procession stretched from one end of the street to the other, winding all the way to the end of the lane. Ten miles of bridal finery, red silk blazing like fire, filled the entire city with celebration.
Su Jiuzhao stood beneath the high window of his prison cell, listening to the festive music drift over from afar.
In their previous life, she was his wife, yet he trampled on her sincere love.
In this life, he repented every day and did everything he could to make amends.
But until the moment his head fell, she never looked back, just as he had not that day.
[The blurb was screenshotted on August 15, 2025, and posted on Weibo.]
Theme: Love yourself before loving someone else
