Splendor in a Turbulent Age: The Evil Empress’s Plot to Win a Husband

A wolf was always at her side because it reminded her of someone.

He carried a fox wherever he went because it reminded him of someone.

One day, the wolf and the fox met...

She was a wandering spirit from another world, reborn into a general’s household in a time when the hunted hare was cooked and the hunting dog killed. Clever and strategic, she was forced to shoulder the burden of protecting her family and home. She was a jade-faced general, a brilliant warrior, and a dazzling young lady of the general’s household. Beneath her valor lay a wealth of hidden talents, and her perceptive eyes had seen every facet of life. She thought this was all there was to her life: quietly watching the years go by, savoring a peaceful life alone and taking pleasure in life’s small, steady moments.

He was a surviving member of the former imperial family, whose ancestors had abdicated in favor of the worthy. He was also a supremely talented young man, renowned throughout the land, handsome beyond compare and as gentle as a breeze, yet sickly. He and his grandfather lived in a vast princely manor, outwardly enjoying a quiet life apart from the world. But it was all a facade. His sharp eyes saw everything, and his talents could command the world. He had no longing for worldly splendor and no resentment toward life’s hardships. He simply couldn’t bear to see her slip through his fingers like sand. Life was short and difficult; to let her go would be to betray himself and waste the years.

With a sweep of his wide sleeves, he calmly set a game of strategy encompassing the whole world in motion. In an instant, the land was thrown into turmoil, though no one knew he had done it all just to hold her in the palm of his hand and cherish her.

A little scene:

“I hear the heir is supremely talented and unrivaled in looks, the perfect husband every woman in the land longs for?” The lazy woman reclined on a beauty couch, her expression indifferent.

“Indeed.” He nodded without a trace of modesty.

“I hear the young lady of the general’s household is brilliant and breathtakingly beautiful, and no man in the land is worthy of her?” He smiled.

“That’s true,” she admitted.

“Since we’re both so exceptional, why don’t we settle for each other?” He eagerly seized the opportunity.

The woman on the couch rolled up her sleeves and gave him a cool once-over with her beautiful eyes. “I never settle.”

His long, jade-like finger pointed to the red cord faintly visible at her neck. “You accepted a token from the matriarch of the Ji family when you were ten. You can’t just refuse to take responsibility now.”

Behind his gentle smile lay an enduring, intoxicating devotion, a bond rooted deep in their hearts.

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