The Legitimate Princess’s Stratagem

A fortune-teller once declared that An Jiu, the eldest legitimate daughter of the Duke's estate, was destined for wealth and honor, and that only an emperor could claim her.

She was betrothed to the Crown Prince, but he despised her. “Even if we marry, I'll make sure you spend your whole life as a wife in name only!”

Everyone said she was weak and would die before turning twenty.

But An Jiu declared she would live to a hundred and cause trouble for a thousand years. Anyone who dared bully her, no matter how powerful, would be destroyed!

Who knew that after a conspiracy framed her, the once-timid girl had long since been replaced by someone else?

From then on, she took on her half-sister and her stepmother, forging a path through every obstacle. Even ghosts and gods feared her. Let’s see who still dares bully her!

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The world assumed she was destined to become the Crown Princess. No one expected the eldest young lady to kick the Crown Prince aside. “The Crown Prince is heartless and ungrateful. He isn't fit to lace my shoes. Even if I remain alone for the rest of my life, I, An Jiu, will never marry him!”

Back then, he had despised and mistreated her. Now she would divorce him and cast him aside!

Her decision to break off the engagement shocked everyone!

Some laughed, saying that if she refused to marry the Crown Prince, no one else in the land would dare take her as a wife. They had no idea she had already quietly found herself the one man in the world who dared to marry her!

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The young master was as graceful as jade, unmatched beneath heaven. But his aloof nature left her laughing and crying at once.

From then on, whenever he retreated, she advanced; whenever he dodged, she pursued. “You may be the greatest man under heaven, but you won't escape my schemes!”

He smiled helplessly, until one day a spark of passion appeared in his calm eyes. “It's not yet clear who has schemed against whom!”

From then on, the harmless young master turned into a scheming, wicked prince. She retreated, he advanced; she dodged, he pursued, refusing to leave her alone.

“I quit!” she protested angrily. He smiled faintly. “You don't get to decide that!”

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With ten miles of wedding finery, she entered the prince's manor, only to find one conspiracy after another waiting for her.

Her sister-in-law made trouble, her sisters-in-law schemed against her, and her mother-in-law was impossible to deal with. The whole household was full of demons and monsters, all determined to make her miserable.

So what? She would meet soldiers with soldiers and floods with earth. An Jiu could take on heaven, earth, and even ghosts and gods!

She never expected that marrying into the prince's manor would uncover a shocking conspiracy. The great clans and the dynasty were caught in a storm, and no one could have imagined that her involvement would turn everything upside down!