The Fortune-Teller's Destiny Twist

On the night of Jiang Zhao's wedding, her husband comes into the bridal chamber carrying a blade. She does not move or call for anyone. She is the finest diviner alive and she already knows he will not use it. The marriage exists because of a saying that has been going around the jianghu for years: whoever takes a daughter of the Jiang family takes the empire. Everyone wants to see whether the diviner's prediction holds again, so Jiang Zhao and her sister Jiang Si were made to choose between the Crown Prince and the Regent. Jiang Si took the Crown Prince first. Jiang Zhao consulted her own art and chose Xiao Yike, the Regent, the man the empire calls the living King of Hell. She wanted a quiet marriage. She does not get one. The Crown Prince will not let her alone and her sister is working against her, and the court closes around both of them. Xiao Yike fights beside her through each of it, and somewhere in the middle of staying alive the two of them stop pretending the marriage is only an arrangement.