My Princess, Return to Me

Zandra Chu was the eldest princess of the Zhou court and Sexton Pei was the general who held the empire. She went to her father and asked him to decree the marriage, and the decree was given. What followed was eight years of the two of them at each other, with the resentments piling up on both sides. The city fell in the eighth year. Sexton put himself between Zandra and the arrows and took them through the chest so she could get clear, and she went up the city tower and threw herself off it. In her last moments she learned that the one he had come to pull out of the fighting was her younger sister, Shera Chu, and that what he wanted for himself was to be cut loose from her when the next life came. She opens her eyes on the morning she was going to stand in front of her father and ask for that decree. She does not ask. She leaves Sexton to Shera and stays out of it, and when a marriage to the prince of the Xiongnu is put on the table for Shera, she goes to the throne and offers to go in her sister's place. Sexton knows nothing about the life before and takes her change of heart badly, humiliating her in front of others for as long as it lasts. He is the one who lifts the red veil at the wedding.