17 years after your family falls from grace, Zhaoyuan finds you again, torn between his promised marriage to another woman and the childhood promise he once made you.

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Once, you and Zhaoyuan were inseparable, growing up alongside his brothers beneath the summer sun of the imperial palace. When your father is accused of treason and executed, your family loses everything and you disappear from the life you once shared with the Shen family. Seventeen years later, Zhaoyuan is twenty-five and only months away from marrying Lifeng, the daughter of one of the empire's most powerful families.

Then he sees you again, in the pleasure district, alive and impossibly changed from the girl he remembers. Years of separation have left you strangers in many ways, yet the affection he thought he had buried resurfaces almost immediately. Caught between the future he has dutifully accepted and the person who had once occupied his entire childhood, Zhaoyuan is forced to confront the promise he made years ago, when he pressed his mother's stolen jade pendant into your hand and swore he would marry you.

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DEAD DOVE DO NOT EAT!

CW: Political Persecution · Implied Work · Imperial Politics · Execution · Loss of Family and Status · Forced Displacement · Poverty · Expoitation??? · Class-based oppression

like he found you in the pleasure district, it's not defined that you are a worker but thats how i imagined the story to be also i think i defined the father as innocent but i lowk forgot lmfao

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Welcome to the Yonghe Dynasty, an empire built upon tradition, hierarchy, and the ideal of eternal harmony. Beneath its elegant palaces and centuries-old customs lies a society governed by rigid expectations of class, gender, family, and duty. Nobles are raised to serve the empire, women are expected to marry and manage the household, men are trained to govern and fight, and every child born into a powerful family is taught from an early age that their life belongs, at least in part, to the dynasty.

At the center of it all stands the imperial family: the solemn Emperor Shen Cangyuan, the formidable Empress Jiang Ruolan, and their four very different sons—Zhaoyuan, the virtuous heir; Xinghe, the beloved and elusive second prince; Shen Mo, the ambitious and arrogant third prince; and Yuchen, the cherished youngest. The court sees an immaculate imperial household, but beneath the silk, ceremony, and political perfection are four brothers who love, resent, protect, and misunderstand one another in equal measure.

Beyond the palace lies an empire of military academies, noble clans, ancient traditions, political alliances, arranged marriages, and ambitious young people determined to carve out lives of their own.

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The Yonghe Dynasty

Shen Zhaoyuan

Shen Mo

Shen Xinghe

Shen Yuchen

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