The Princess's Marriage

Women in this world want to marry a good man. But men, too, want to make a match that will bring them plenty of support.

But Bao Ying, the apple of the Wu King's eye, had a childhood sweetheart and fiance, Xiao Changqing. With only six months left until their wedding, he ran off with a butcher's daughter!

Bao Ying couldn't understand it at all, so she decided to chase after him and demand an explanation!

Wang Chun was a maid who grew up alongside the princess Bao Ying. They ate together, slept together, and studied together. They were practically sisters. But Wang Chun had learned little of Bao Ying's intelligence and cleverness, while picking up plenty of her free-spirited ways. Now she'd fallen for a guard at the palace's side gate and was determined to marry him!

"Marry an orphan with nothing to his name? Dream on," Wang Chun's mother shouted. "Listen here. For the rest of your life, you'll either serve your future master and help the princess keep her husband in line, or marry a steward and keep an eye on the princess's money. What good would it do the princess if you married some common soldier? I've wasted my money raising you!"

Wang Chun was only a maid, but she hated Xiao Changqing...

Now, at last, an opportunity had come. Bao Ying was sneaking off to Luoyang to chase her former fiance. Wang Chun planned to use Bao Ying's elopement as an opportunity to force her family to approve the match!

He Chongshan was an orphan who had lived almost twenty years with nothing to his name. He spent every day trying to figure out how to turn his life around. Now, at last, an opportunity had come. Princess Bao Ying was sneaking off to Luoyang to chase her former fiance. By escorting the princess, he could earn merit and secure a future for himself!

Li Zheng, the Prince of Liangzhou, had had such a rough time with marriage that at twenty-six, he still wasn't settled down. Still, every woman he was introduced to came from a more distinguished family than the last. Perhaps it was true that a blessing in disguise could come from misfortune.

Until he tried to marry a woman from a prominent family east of the pass, only to be insulted as a backward frontier warrior, half-barbarian and part Qiang, who had no right to marry a daughter of one of the Five Great Clans.

"What's so great about the prominent families of Guanzhong, or the Five Great Clans? I'll marry a woman of even higher status than those top families and make her my queen," Li Zheng told his advisors.

"...Your Highness, are you thinking of marrying a princess? But there are no unmarried princesses of a suitable age right now! Unless..." His advisor began to entertain a wild idea.

"I'm not that unreasonable. Let's say I'm a feudal prince. I should at least marry a legitimate princess from another prince's family!"

His advisor: ...That doesn't exactly make the requirements any less strict.

Xiao Changqing was also a fatherless child, but he was lucky. His father had left him a vast inheritance and had been a friend of the Wu King. So the Wu King took the fatherless boy as his son-in-law, and they were to marry once Princess Bao Ying came of age.

Xiao Changqing was a dashing young gentleman from a distinguished family. Being the Wu King's son-in-law did nothing to dampen the affection of the young ladies of Jianye. Yesterday they tossed him sachets, and today they threw fruit at him. He felt very sorry for all those beautiful young ladies. Ah... but he was going to be the Wu King's son-in-law.

"I'M GOING TO BE THE WU KING'S SON-IN-LAW!" Xiao Changqing was tied up like a dumpling. He stared at the beautiful woman before him. "You think tying me up means you'll get your way?! I won't give in to you... Mmph!"

Someone come save me!!!

The extraordinary journey of Princess Bao Ying.

P.S. This is a completely fictional setting!

Theme: A person stripped of power decides to take power