Ferrying Against the Current

[Even if I must give my life, I will sail against the current with you.]

[Tags]: Two powerful leads / angsty romance / broken relationship rekindled / marriage before love / political intrigue and the fate of the realm / serious tone / happy ending

[Couple]: Iron-blooded, unhinged princess regent x beautiful, tragic, long-suffering powerful minister

[Blurb]

The first time,

he ventured to speak: "Your Highness, please return my jade pendant."

She smirked and kept it. "Our fate together has run its course. I gave it to you, so now I'm taking it back."

The second time,

he spoke urgently: "Your Highness, please return my sachet!"

She merely said, "Its origins are suspicious. I'm confiscating it."

She didn't know that the sachet was one of a pair, the other worn against her skin,

and that it was the only talisman keeping him alive in this world.

She took his jade pendant and his sachet,

and with them, his will to live.

By the time she finally learned the truth he had died ten thousand deaths rather than reveal,

all she received was this news:

Lu Chenzhou broke through enemy lines to protect the map and died a hero for his country.

At that moment, heaven and earth fell silent.

And this was only one of the four deadly predicaments they faced.

Dying in the Imperial Prison was one.

Being sent to the enemy state to die was one.

Their childhood friendship drowned in a sea of blood was one.

In the final predicament, he "died,"

and she, eyes red, overturned the Golden Throne Hall:

"If the world will not accept him, then I'll change the world with my own hands!"