The Ruthless, Cold Emperor and His Commoner Bride

A thirty-year-old soul in a five-year-old body.

A surgeon from the 21st century, she died in an "accident" on the day she received an award.

In the Moon Kingdom, she is the sixth daughter of the Murong family, a girl her family considers utterly dispensable.

Though only five, the child had endured an unbearable past. She not only took over the little girl's body, but also inherited her memories.

In her eyes, the love of parents and the affection between siblings are nothing but fleeting clouds.

For twelve years, she lived at the bottom of a valley, relying on her senior fellow disciple and grandmother, and they on her.

Two imperial edicts changed both their fates forever.

When they met at a birthday banquet, he already had someone by his side, and she was just the same.

They gazed at each other from afar, able only to look on and sigh in wonder.

She is both Murong Li and Bai Lin.

The world is beautiful, but many people scheme against it, and many bring suffering to its people.

Caught up in the struggle for power, she is dragged into a web of old grudges.

Excerpt:

"By the Mandate of Heaven, the emperor decrees: Shangguan Qi, seventh princess of the Yanmai Kingdom, is gentle and virtuous, wise and gracious. The Yanmai Kingdom and the Moon Kingdom shall unite in friendship through marriage. She shall be married to Huangfu Mo, Prince Yi of the Moon Kingdom. Let this decree be carried out." He had spent twenty years plotting his revenge. To rise again, he hid his identity. To reclaim everything that had once been his, he gave up the woman he loved and married a princess from another kingdom.

"By the Mandate of Heaven, the emperor decrees: Murong Li, sixth daughter of the Murong family, chancellor of the Moon Kingdom and imperial father-in-law, is dignified and virtuous, endowed with both talent and learning. She shall be married to Huangfu Ao, Prince Mu. The wedding shall take place in three months. Let this decree be carried out."

There was also a letter from home.

"My daughter, I know you hate the Murong family, but you will marry him whether you like it or not. Refuse, and it will be considered defying the imperial decree, punishable by the extermination of your entire clan. When that happens, your second sister will be the first to be taken to the executioner's block, because she was the one who asked the emperor to decree that you marry Prince Mu."

She wouldn't care if all nine branches of the family were wiped out, or even if everyone surnamed Murong were killed. She cared about only one person: Murong Zi, the Murong family's second daughter.

"Two people may love each other, yet still be unable to spend their lives together. Without my senior fellow disciple, it doesn't matter whom I marry." She and her senior fellow disciple were fated to love but not to be together. She could only hope they might become husband and wife in their next life. To be fated but not destined was life's tragedy; to be destined but not fated was life's helplessness.

Happiness! What is happiness?

She used to think happiness was within easy reach. But now, it was far away, harder to pluck than a star in the sky.

"I married you to torment Murong Guanghuan. From today on, the Prince Mu's residence will be your hell." He left with a flick of his sleeve after dropping those words.

On her wedding night, she was condemned as a scapegoat. The next day, she became a cast-off princess.

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