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17 Chapters Every 2 Day(s) 70 Readers 0 Reviews 08-04-2025
One-line Summary: She was forcibly taken and married by her imperial elder brother.... more>>
On the day of her grand wedding, the usually obedient and most beloved youngest daughter of the emperor, Princess Rouzhen, refused to marry the imperial consort and publicly fled the marriage—then disappeared within the palace.
The commotion reached the Eastern Palace. The sick Crown Prince Jiang Yao, who had long remained indoors, sat by the window and slowly turned a page of his book with his fingertip.
That night, the drizzle fell like threads, cicadas cried mournfully in the cold air, and knocking echoed outside the palace hall. Jiang Yao opened the door to find a young girl in a phoenix coronet and wedding robes standing in the rain.
They weren’t particularly close. After more than ten years, their relationship had remained distant and formal. Yet the girl's eyes shimmered like water, her red lips burned like fire. She leaned closer and said: “Imperial Elder Brother, please… let me in to hide.”
In the distance, torchlight lit up the night: “By imperial decree: whoever finds the princess shall be rewarded with ten thousand gold taels!”
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It started with that simple plea—“I don’t want to get married”—that made the Crown Prince agree to shelter her from the rain. After that night, she pleaded sweetly every day, begging him to let her stay just one more day.
Jiang Yinyu, hiding in the Eastern Palace, thought—
The Crown Prince was noble and pure, like a breeze under the moon, like a mountain one could only look up to. Beloved by the emperor, respected by the court.
If she just catered to his temperament and flattered him a bit, maybe when he ascended the throne, he would remember their old bond and look after her, his "younger sister," even if just a little.
But news of the princess hiding in the Eastern Palace eventually got out. To outsiders, it became a scandal: the Crown Prince was seen as immoral, undisciplined, and hiding his imperial sister. Criticism poured in from all over, and the emperor was furious.
Jiang Yinyu knew she was not the emperor’s biological daughter. To quell the rumors, she volunteered to marry into a distant kingdom as part of a peace alliance.
That night, beneath the red wedding candles, Jiang Yinyu sat in the bridal chamber—not waiting for her groom, but for the Crown Prince, clad in black armor.
His usually pristine, jade-like hand—accustomed only to holding a brush—was now drenched in blood. He slowly approached her, sword drawn from the heart of the imperial consort. He caressed her pale cheek, eyes like a bottomless abyss.
“Why won’t my little sister listen to her big brother? Why insist on marrying?”
“Didn’t I tell you—whichever kingdom you choose to marry into, I’ll conquer it? You’re supposed to stay in the Eastern Palace, waiting for your brother to marry you. Why did you run?”
Setting Notes:
(1) The male and female leads are not related by blood — the female lead is adopted. The romance begins after both discover their true identities.
(2) There are possessive and forceful elements in the story. The male lead becomes dark and obsessive in the later part. Initially gentle, he later becomes both mentally and physically unstable, and only the female lead can calm him. They are in an exclusive relationship.
(3) The death of the imperial consort (the groom) has its reasons—the groom was not a good person.
(4) The background is a fictional setting inspired by the Han and Tang dynasties, but does not impose strict expectations on female c*astity or virtue.
(5) This is a pseudo-sibling romance. If you're uncomfortable with that, please don’t force yourself to read it (said kindly, in response to comments saying the male and female leads are “too close”).
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