[Second Male Lead Grovels for Forgiveness + Regret Trope + Both Leads are Virgins]
At their engagement banquet, when Xie Yuheng abandoned her once again for his childhood sweetheart, Shen Zhaoli knew their three-year entanglement had to end.
She shed her red robes and, for the sake of the nation, agreed to a peace marriage with the King of Beiliang.
On the day of the marriage alliance, Xie Yuheng, with a solemn expression, merely stated that the nation’s welfare came first. He promised that when she returned, he would still grant Shen Zhaoli the position of his official wife.
Years later.
Shen Zhaoli returned to the capital in glory, and Xie Yuheng, keeping his promise, came to welcome her with the full rites of sanmei liupin.
But before he even reached the city gates, her tyrannical and despotic husband, the King of Beiliang, sent Xie Yuheng tumbling from his horse with a single silver spear.
Chu Yunzheng wrapped an arm around her waist and, looking down from his horse, sneered:
“She is the treasure of my heart, won only after I returned a city and withdrew my troops. Are you even worthy of coveting her?”
Only then did Xie Yuheng realize that the rumors that had spread along the border for years—of the King of Beiliang doting on his wife to the bone—were actually true…
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