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After Pretending to be a Dandy for Five Years to Break Off the Engagement with the Female Emperor, She Regretted It

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Lin Chuan, a modern office worker, travels to the Great Yan Dynasty and becomes the most reviled dandy third prince. To break off his arranged marriage with Empress Chu Zhao, he deliberately acts as a dissipated playboy for five years—smashing theaters, fighting crickets, and harassing maidens—finally forcing Chu Zhao to issue a divorce edict. But just after being kicked out of the palace and desperate for food, he writes his past-life poem "Prelude to Water Melody" in a restaurant, instantly stunning the capital; even the literary giant calls him a "banished immortal". When Chu Zhao sees the manuscript, she recalls those "coincidences" over the years: the masked man who shielded her from assassins, the corrected mistakes in her memorials, the late-night warm tea—turns out this "dandy" has been protecting her in the stupidest way. She tears up the divorce edict, leads imperial guards to block Lin Chuan's shabby house, and says: "Third Prince, I regret it. Come back to the palace with me."

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