[A sweet-faced, decisive, career-driven heroine x an outwardly harmless, inwardly sinister, calculating hero]
(The hero is formidable, but the heroine is even stronger. He becomes lovestruck later on, while she stays focused on her career from start to finish, killing anyone who stands in her way beneath her sweet, charming face.)
From the moment the legitimate daughter of the Xie family was born, she was chosen to become the Crown Prince's future consort.
At fourteen, she accompanied her father on a military campaign and distinguished herself in battle, earning the title of Princess of Nanyang.
That same year, the emperor asked her to choose one of his ten sons as her husband.
Xie Zhili took one look at the Third Prince in the crowd and chose him. The imperial edicts appointing him Crown Prince and arranging their marriage were issued at the same time.
Yet just one month before their wedding, the Crown Prince suddenly decided to take her younger half-sister as a secondary consort, and even planned to welcome both women into his household on the same day.
Xie Zhili promptly broke off the engagement and decided to choose another prince to support.
[Excerpt]
"Xie Zhili, I'm the Crown Prince! How dare you talk to me like that?!"
"So what if you're the Crown Prince? When I gave your mother a burial robe for her birthday, she had to smile and thank me for the thought. You only got to sit in the heir's seat because of me. What right do you have to put on airs in front of me?!"
Another one without an ending. Since it is not finished and has no ending, it should not be published. This is cheating.
I look forward to the stars and the moon, and I finally look forward to the new book []