Does the Regent Regret It Today?

[Proud, flirtatious wounded crane x cold-faced, jealous living King of Hell] Shen Lingjiang was the laughingstock of Chu. She was beautiful as a winter landscape, but the noble scions disliked her. They looked down on her because her mother was lowborn, and couldn't stand a pretty vase like her. They thought she wasn't even worthy of comparing a single strand of hair with Chu's Third Princess, Shangguan Ying. When Chu and Liang went to war, Chu's Third Princess, Shangguan Ying, hid among the troops and advised them from behind the scenes, trading blows with Liang's regent, Xie Yunzhou, over several battles. Xie Yunzhou lost a few times and couldn't let it go. Before long, admiration took root in his heart. As for Shen Lingjiang, the Seventh Princess, she was nothing but a good-for-nothing fool. After Chu's defeat, Shen Lingjiang was sent to Liang's capital as a hostage. Xie Yunzhou scoffed at her, assuming she was scheming and currying favor on the strength of her pretty face. He came from the most powerful family among the nobility, was arrogant and had a trail of blood behind him. In this life, there were three things he hated most: people who overestimated themselves, pretty vases, and people from enemy states. Shen Lingjiang was all three. One moment of mistaken judgment cost Xie Yunzhou a lifetime of regret. Only belatedly did he realize that the pretty vase was more than just a beautiful face. Slowly, he also came to see that his admired rival seemed rather ordinary. Suspicious, he investigated, only to discover that the enemy army had once harbored another military strategist: a brilliant, almost otherworldly genius who rarely appeared in public. Shen Lingjiang smiled brightly. “Your Highness truly didn't know? That strategist... had the surname Shen.”