The emperor's younger sister had set a date for her wedding, and the Crown Prince personally arranged every detail of her dowry.
Crown Prince Jiang Yan was not a good man. He showed no mercy to anyone, and once his face turned, he was ruthless. The whole court knew of his iron-fisted rule.
Only where his younger sister was concerned did he tell himself that, for more than a decade, he had never once failed in their deep bond as siblings.
That was a lie.
*
Little Princess Wei Ning lost her parents at the age of three. The emperor issued an order to bring her into the palace, where she was raised under the Empress's care.
After more than a decade in the quiet, secluded palace, Wei Ning had grown clever and perceptive.
She had secured a good marriage for herself and was about to leave the palace. The only thing she couldn't bear to leave behind was her close bond with her Crown Prince brother.
That was a lie, too.
*
In the end, the Crown Prince said what he should never have said.
"Jiang Yan," his younger sister gazed at him, startled, with a hint of pity. "Have you gone mad?"
With a few grand strokes of his brush, the Crown Prince sent her prospective husband out of the capital, and postponed the wedding date again and again.
Was he mad? The Crown Prince thought in despair. She was his bottom line.
He had no bottom line left.
Premise: Love can overcome every hardship
