The First Year of Being the Most Beautiful in Chang'an

Devoted love interest + jealous type + mutual pampering + each other's one true love + plot-focused

The seemingly cold and sinister prince is actually a jealous, tearful romantic, while the seemingly innocent and harmless princess consort is actually strong-willed and career-minded

Huo Ying x Rong Zhu

Blurb 1

Rong Zhu, a brash woman from a humble family, was jilted by the top scholar she was betrothed to. As expected, she became the laughingstock of Chang'an.

When someone is down, everyone piles on. The whole city waited to watch her make a fool of herself, never expecting that the frontier's God of War would send an urgent request to the emperor for permission to marry her. In one fell swoop, the brash woman became the Princess Consort of Prince Anding, envied by every woman in the city.

From the marketplace to the imperial palace, everyone discussed one question: Who exactly was Rong Zhu?

Blurb 2

A rumor spread throughout Chang'an that the newly arrived Princess Consort of Prince Anding had been chosen only because her birth charts would bring the prince good fortune. She had a title, but no affection and no real authority. The prince always slept in his study, and the two had never shared a bed. Left alone in her rooms and miserable, the Princess Consort of Prince Anding could only busy herself with trivial business matters to pass the time.

It wasn't until Rong Zhu's business grew so successful that the emperor granted her an audience, the princess and crown prince took turns trying to win her over, and the foremost imperial merchant hosted a grand banquet in her honor that everyone realized: Wait, something's not right!

The cold-faced prince, rumored to neglect, dislike, and never support his wife, was in private doing everything he could to please her and showering her with attention. Yet despite asking time and again, he still couldn't get her to share his bed. Standing outside her room, he cried out, “Yuzhu, can't we sleep together? I promise I'll take good care of you tonight. Let me in!”

The Princess Consort of Prince Anding looked through her ledger while her maid massaged her back and legs. She was so exasperated she laughed. If she believed him again, she'd deserve to lose everything!

Blurb 3

What should you do when your savior has completely forgotten you? No problem. Just make your savior fall in love with you! But she has a fiancé. She's getting married, and the groom isn't him. He was a prince of a different surname, stationed at the frontier. To avoid getting entangled in political struggles at court, he deliberately let the fighting drag on so he could stay away from trouble.

That is, until the love of his life cried in his dream that she'd been jilted.

Huo Ying: What?! Time to sweep through the enemy camp!

After crushing an army of enemies, he sent an urgent report to claim his reward, all so he could ask for the hand of the woman he loved. Let others scheme and plot all they wanted. He only knew that his wife needed him!

Both are each other's first and only. Deeply in love, with no melodrama in their relationship.

The heroine's perspective is uplifting. She has a golden finger as well as a strong work ethic. Everyone dislikes her at first, then adores her later. There are love rivals, but the romance remains firmly one-on-one.

There is no plot where the girls tear each other apart over a man. Later on, they only want power for themselves~

Theme: A wife is the sky, a wife is the earth. Dote on your wife, and you can stand tall beneath the heavens!