Quiet, taciturn prince VS lively, radiant princess consort
Possessive pursuit / secret love / groveling quest to win her back / sweet romance / moonlight
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Though Yuan Wusi was the legitimate daughter of the Chancellor's household, she never enjoyed the treatment afforded to noble ladies. She was raised from childhood in a courtyard in the countryside of Yanzhou. At fifteen, she returned to the capital, only to live under someone else's roof again. She spent three careful years there, all for the sake of reuniting with her elder brother.
Who could have known that dreadful news would suddenly arrive from the border: her elder brother's life or death was unknown. To find him, she pretended to agree to marry the Prince of Yu.
On the eve of the wedding, she ran away.
She was convinced the Prince of Yu was busy with affairs of state and would never spare a thought for a stranger he'd met only once, so she let down her guard and rested at a post station.
Who could have expected the prince to personally lead his men in pursuit and surround the entire post station, waiting for his prey to jump into the net of her own accord?
His expression dark, he advanced step by step. "Why did you run?"
His long, well-defined fingers caressed her cheek and tilted up her chin, forcing her to meet his eyes. "Wouldn't it be good to be my princess consort?"
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Yuan Wusi couldn't understand why he refused to let her go, until one day, she happened to see a portrait of a woman in his study. The woman looked seventy or eighty percent like her.
The scroll was yellowed, as if it had been there for a long time.
She was stunned for a moment, thinking the woman in the portrait was herself. But on closer inspection, the woman looked a little younger. She stood beneath a peach tree, in a place called Binzhou.
But she'd never been to Binzhou.
So, had she been mistaken for a substitute?
She secretly swore that she would find this moonlight herself. Everyone searched high and low, until someone finally dared to compare the portrait to the princess consort.
Everyone looked at the portrait, then at her.
They reached a conclusion:
"Isn't that the princess consort herself?"
"Why's she making a false accusation against herself?"
Princess Consort: "..."
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Reading Guide
1. An alternate-history setting combining various dynasties. Please don't nitpick the historical details.
2. Possessive pursuit, the male lead is secretly in love, there is no substitute, and the moonlight has always been the female lead.
3. The female lead lost a short stretch of her memory and doesn't remember the male lead.
4. Sweet romance, no angst.
Theme: Cherish the present and seize the moment, because there's no second chance if you're too slow
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