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CN (3)
18 Chapters Every 2.1 Day(s) 73 Readers 0 Reviews 08-05-2025
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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CN (3.5)
70 Chapters Every 4 Day(s) 271 Readers 0 Reviews 08-04-2025
Wei Zhen is charming and alluring, born into a prestigious family, and is an untouchable delicate flower in the city of Chang'an.... more>>
Her wedding is imminent—she is about to marry the young Crown Prince. The Crown Prince is gentle, elegant, and graceful. Everyone believes this is an excellent marriage.
However, Wei Zhen has a dream—
She realizes that she is merely a character in a storybook. The Crown Prince loves someone else; marrying her serves another purpose. Her existence is merely an obstacle to their love.
In the end, the Crown Prince ascends the throne and marries his true love, while Wei Zhen is cast into the cold palace as an abandoned empress, her life ending in tragic loneliness.
The storybook ends there, but in her dream, everything continues.
Before long, the dynasty is overthrown. A young general leads a rebellion, seizing the imperial city and committing the greatest crime against the empire.
The first thing he does upon entering the palace is kill the emperor and take Wei Zhen’s memorial tablet as his bride.
Upon waking from her dream, Wei Zhen steps out of her room and gazes at the handsome young man who often visits her younger brother to practice martial arts in the courtyard, momentarily lost in thought.
Qi Yan is of noble birth, high-spirited and gallant, the most dazzling presence in all of Chang'an.
If nothing changes, he will follow in the footsteps of his ancestors, spending his life on the battlefield, defending the country.
Until that day, when he visits his friend’s home as usual.
The spring breeze stirs, the bamboo blinds sway, and the crisp sound of jade pendants clinking fills the air.
The young man turns his head and sees a graceful silhouette stepping out from behind the curtain.
Bathed in shifting spring light, the lady is coldly beautiful, rarely one to smile.
But upon seeing him, her lips curve into a soft, radiant smile, stunningly bright.
The seventeen-year-old, unrestrained young general momentarily freezes. He smiles back calmly, yet a faint blush creeps up behind his ears.
In his heart, a gentle spring breeze turns into a wild storm, swaying for her.
From that day on, whether in spring or autumn, he will go against the current to chase after her.
That day, he fell in love.
Qi Yan has always been forthright in his actions. But from that day forward, he was determined to plot and scheme for the cold-hearted lady—who already had a fiancé—to become his own.
[A cold-on-the-outside, warm-on-the-inside stunning beauty × A gallant young general in splendid attire]
Sweet romance, 1V1, happy ending, little to no age difference.
The story uses the reincarnation trope to introduce a prophetic dream, exploring past and present lives, but is not an actual transmigration novel.
The setting is fictional, and societal expectations of female c*astity are not overly strict.
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