The Beloved Crown Princess, a Divine Healer

He is the revered eldest grandson of the emperor, yet frail and sickly, with rumors claiming he may not live to see twenty!

She was adopted by a general’s household, but was branded the daughter of a mistress and became an easy target for everyone!

With a graceful sweep of her sleeve and a needle in her hand, she can bring the dead back to life and restore the flesh to bones. If she refuses to let him die, who would dare take his life?

She quietly commands the world and plots its fate, calculating every heart and every turn of events. Who would dare bully the people he wants to protect?

Su Yu once said that with all his schemes to manage at court, he could never be trapped by romance.

Ye Qingran once said that though she had made countless plans in this life, she had no interest in love.

But then...

Su Yu: “All I want in this life is to play my zither by day and have a lovely wife read beside me at night. That is all.”

Ye Qingran: “Raising a husband and children can be fun, too.”

*

Then one day, all of a sudden...

Su Yu discovered that his darling wife had layer upon layer of secret identities, like the seeds of a lotus pod. He peeled one away after another, and they just kept coming.

Ye Qingran also discovered that her husband’s masks were like the layers of an onion: remove one, and there’s another beneath it, endlessly.

[In short, this is a story about a scheming couple exposing each other’s secret identities: united as husband and wife in public, then asking each other at home, “And who are you?”]

[Bonus Scene]

Ye Qingran: “Husband, doesn’t it get tiring wearing a mask for so long?”

Su Yu smiled faintly. “Not at all. So... I’m about to get tired.”

He swept aside the tassel curtain. “Qingran, I’ve been meaning to ask you: aren’t you hot wearing so many secret identities? How about I help you take them off?”

Ye Qingran: “...”

*

Ye Qingran: “Between the empire and a beauty, which matters more?”

Su Yu: “If the beauty isn’t you, then a prosperous realm is what a man should seek.”

Ye Qingran lowered her head and lowered her eyes. “And if it is me?”

Su Yu smiled and pulled her into his arms. “I would give you my mountains and rivers in exchange for one smile.”