As the daughter of a desert princess and the emperor of the Central Plains, Ling Qinghe was practically a nobody in the imperial harem. So when chaos broke out in the palace, no one noticed she had disappeared.
Ling Qinghe traveled west without a hitch, carrying her mother's ashes and a jade pendant, with a kind tutor by her side, and headed straight for the desert.
As for the fiance her father had once chosen for her?
They were desert folk. They didn't follow the Central Plains' customs of parents arranging marriages and matchmakers negotiating them.
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Ling Yan was the son of a vassal prince's concubine.
When his mother was favored, she once accompanied the prince to the capital and secured a fine marriage prospect for her son. Later, after she fell out of favor and was killed, Ling Yan was left to suffer every kind of abuse and humiliation.
So when his cavalry stormed the capital gates,
his first order of business was to find the fiancee who had lived deep inside the palace for years.
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The vast desert stretched beneath a lonely plume of smoke and the setting sun.
A horse's whinny cut through the dusk as a group of riders emerged from the swirling sand.
Looking at the fiance she had once met, Ling Qinghe pretended to be confused. "May I ask who you are?"
Ling Yan sat astride his horse, looking down at her with an enigmatic smile. "Ling Qinghe, I've found you."
[Reader's Guide]
1. Sunny, bright girl x dark, obsessive man
2. Both are virgins; the hero takes the heroine by force
Theme: Love yourself before you love someone else.
