The Beauty's Gambit: The Pawn Princess

Love born of a conspiracy is bound to leave both hearts battered and bruised.

Because I love you, I gave you everything I had.

But in the end, you still drove me into a dead end.

The things I risked my life to protect, you insisted on destroying. So when I fall in love with someone else, why do you keep clinging to me?

Mo Shuang

Overnight, she transmigrates and becomes the emperor’s pawn.

Behind a mask, she becomes his princess consort.

Yet their hearts remain worlds apart!

She plots and schemes, all to find evidence that her beloved has betrayed his country and sided with the enemy.

He plays along with her plan, simply waiting with an urn, eager for her to walk into the trap.

When the dust settles,

he stands in golden robes, surveying his vast empire with proud disdain.

She trembles, her clear eyes brimming with tears, and forces out each word: “Don’t make me hate you!”

“Hate?” He sneers. “Good! As it happens, I hate you too!”

When they meet again at the wedding of a foreign ruler, she is the bride, another man is the groom, and he is merely a guest. He yanks the red veil from her head, anguish filling his eyes. “Is it really you?”

She smiles, radiant and peerless. “Excuse me, have we met?”