Crown Princess? No. Game Changer!

At the Polo Cup, Cecilia enters without giving her name and plays the match unrecognised. She wins it, and then she says who she is, and the court that had been watching is left staring. Before that she had been told she had three months to live. She stopped drinking the bitter medicine, dropped the conduct expected of a crown princess, and went at the people who had spent years directing her, her brother among them, and the women of the court, and the Empress. Word of it went through the palace and past its walls. Adrian, the crown prince, had never paid her much notice. He was there when she came off the field smiling in the sun, and after that he was the one pursuing her. She had meant the whole thing only as a way of spending the months she had left.