Flowers Set Sail Together

[Beautiful Grand Princess × Sickly Emperor × Big Bad Wolf of a Regent]

Zhi Hua is the Grand Princess of the empire, with a face as lovely as the moon and flowers, and a body that naturally glistens with fragrant sweat. In spring, she draws butterflies into a frenzy, a wonder of our dynasty.

Rumor has it that she was born to the late emperor and a palace maid, then raised by Consort Xuan. But some say the maid already had a lover, and Zhi Hua was not the late emperor's child.

Whether or not she has imperial blood, her younger brother, Emperor Kang Yu, regards her as the dearest person in the world.

Zhi Hua bows her head to look at the emperor, who has long since grown taller and stronger than she is, and sings him the nursery rhyme they used to hear as children, soothing him with a soft voice.

Kang Yu cups her cheek with one hand. "There's someone I want so badly to kill. You have to help me."

"...You want to give me to Prince Feng?"

"Sister, just do it for me."

A rumor suddenly spreads that the Grand Princess was born to a palace maid and a guard.

Kang Yu expels her from the palace, bars her from the imperial ancestral temple, and destroys her record in the imperial genealogy to preserve the dignity of the royal family.

No one knows where Zhi Hua has gone, until one day, at a palace banquet, they see her arrive with Prince Feng, Pei Hezhou.

Seeing the red marks on her collar, Kang Yu trembles and speaks in a grief-stricken voice where no one else can hear. "Sister, I sent you to that bastard. I didn't mean for you to get along with him like a loving couple, or to share a bed with him in perfect harmony."

Zhi Hua feigns ignorance. "You taught me how to help you, but forgot to teach me how to protect myself."

Pei Hezhou arrives at last. He has foreign blood and a tall, imposing build. He looks down at the young emperor. "Kang Yu, why aren't you at the banquet? Why are you here talking to your aunt?"

[The basic premise is that the male lead rises to power. The main plot hasn't made it into the blurb yet, but it's probably a story about the second male lead placing the heroine by the male lead's side, only for the male lead to turn her against him and redeem her.]

Reader's guide:

* The heroine is one year older than the emperor, and the regent is six years older than her.

* The emperor and Zhi Hua are each other's first, while the regent and Zhi Hua are not each other's first.

* They get together after their nominal family relationship has been dissolved.

2023.2.18

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