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Ning Huanyi was the exceptionally noble only daughter of the Yongchang Marquisate, a prodigy of talent and grace, yet frail and sickly since childhood—pale and delicate, with a constitution so weak it seemed she wouldn’t live long.
The people of the capital all agreed: this girl must never be taken as a wife, lest one be saddled with the reputation of a wife-killer, remarrying within three years!
Her childhood engagement was thus broken off, and for a time, Ning Huanyi became the laughingstock of the capital.
But before the gossip could even fade, the newly returned, breathtakingly beautiful Regent Xiao Ning’an—whose phoenix eyes held tenderness even without smiling and whose figure was enchantingly graceful—personally came to propose marriage. Unfazed by Ning Huanyi’s frailty, she even used her military merits to request an imperial decree for their union, displaying such deep affection that countless young women envied and resented Ning Huanyi.
The day after their wedding, Ning Huanyi bit her handkerchief, her almond eyes glistening: “Your Highness, did you marry me out of pity?”
Xiao Ning’an paused while cleaning her silver sword, then smiled. “My wife is delicate and frail, while I only care about protecting what’s mine. This… is nothing short of a match made in heaven.”
Ning Huanyi would never know in this lifetime that the striking beauty she once saved from being humiliated by noble girls on the street would one day become the all-powerful Regent.
Mini Theater:
On the bustling streets of the capital, rain poured relentlessly.
The frail young miss of the Ning family went out to worship at the temple but was caught in the downpour. As her carriage moved slowly, she spotted several noble daughters pointing and laughing at a woman in the corner, ordering their servants to beat her mercilessly.
The woman, stunningly beautiful, bore a look of defiance even as her cries for help grew faint, as though she had only one breath left. Just as the rain of fists was about to land, the assailants scattered like startled birds. Through her blurred vision, Xiao Ning’an caught sight of a departing carriage marked with the character “Ning”—it must have been the Ning family’s eldest daughter returning from worship…
