A Flourishing Age of Red: Young Lord, Please Accept This Marriage

She is the princess of Xia, born with Heaven’s mandate and entrusted with the lifeblood of an empire. Noble and peerless in grace, she is admired by all. Yet no one knows that her father, the emperor, is cold and merciless; the imperial consort is ruthless; her younger sister is vicious and spiteful; and her younger brother covets the crown prince’s position… He is the heir of Chu, blessed with celestial beauty and a gift for statecraft. Calm and composed, he is peerless beneath the heavens. Yet though he is a son of the royal house, he is cruelly ostracized and forced to leave his homeland, becoming a hostage in a foreign country. She walks and smiles her way through the imperial palace, where every step is fraught with danger. All she wishes is to protect her young brother and help him ascend the throne. He stirs up the political landscape in a foreign land. With a mind as intricate as a carved jade puzzle, he calculates people’s hearts and the shifting tides of power, leaving nothing to chance and no strategy unplanned. With a laugh and a few words, he commands the field from afar and lays waste to a city a thousand miles away. … When he meets her, will he be walking into a tiger’s den, or will they join forces as equals? He offers her an empire as his betrothal gift and asks for her hand. He thinks it will be nothing more than a political marriage, but no one knows that he stirs up chaos and sparks a war, throwing an entire nation into battle and leaving corpses strewn across the land, all just to tell her: “Yun Xi, from now on, I’ll protect you…” Everyone says the heir has schemed and calculated every move, and must be plotting to seize the world. He only smiles faintly. “The world is vast, and all under Heaven is boundless. It’s enough that I’ve deceived just one person: her.” Since he has decided to deceive her, he’ll do so for a lifetime, for all eternity, until she loves no one but him!