The Deep Winter Snow of the Twenty-Third Year of Yong'an
It buried Princess Jiang Sui'an of Zhao'an and imprisoned Crown Prince Xiao Yanli in a lifelong, unrequited devotion.
The person she believed would stay by her side for the rest of her life left Jiang Sui'an to die with hatred in her heart.
When her soul returned to the past, she came back bearing the blood feud of her previous life. All she wanted was to keep the wolves at bay, honor the bonds she cherished, and give him a peaceful life.
But she never understood that the man who, in the name of brother and sister, shielded her from every frost and storm in the imperial palace and fought through bloodshed to crush the flames of war for her had hidden over a decade of burning, restrained affection in his eyes. It had never been the love between siblings.
She schemed at every turn, hoping to change her fate, unaware that a marriage contract between their families, signed when they were children, had already doomed them to a lifetime of entanglement and a love too deep to escape.
"I've protected you for more than a decade. It was never because of some mere sibling affection."
In this life, he would rather bear the world's condemnation than let her face the sea of love alone. He would help her weather every tribulation of the past and fight for a lifetime by her side.
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