The Prince Is My Second Chance

In the twenty-eighth year of Dazhi the Northern Di invade. General Xie Boqing takes command of the army in the crisis. The emperor is a foolish and suspicious man, and he turns on the general, who is captured and executed. The general's daughter, Xie Yu, goes to Huaiyang City to collect her father's body, and beneath the city wall the imperial soldiers who came after her shoot her through with thousands of arrows. Zhao Huaiyu, the fourth prince, is disabled and has loved Xie Yu in secret all his life. After her death he goes after power for the sake of revenge and in the end takes the throne. He has the Mermaid Lamp, which can turn time back at a price, and the price is the soul of someone who loves. He pays it and returns to the days before Xie Yu died. Under a false name he makes a bargain with her: she will be reborn and the two of them will change what is coming. Back in the twenty-eighth year of Dazhi, Xie Yu tries to keep her father from marching and cannot, so she stays in the capital and works the court from the inside to keep him alive. When the emperor issues a decree arranging her marriage, she gives up the crown prince, who betrayed her in her first life, and chooses the fourth prince, Zhao Huaiyu, whom the rest of the court takes for a man of no account.