Di Huang Shu / Anle Zhuan
The Emperor's Book / The Legend of Anle
by Xing Ling 星零

1st volume: 112 chapters
2nd volume: 104 chapters + 2 extrasTL status: ongoing, 27/216+2

“My heart was once moved for a woman named Ren Anle,
but I will spend this life always protecting Di Ziyuan.
Ren Anle, these words, you must remember them forever.”

last updated 10/24/2023

Ren Anle / Di Ziyuan
(任安乐/帝梓元)

  • Di Ziyuan, who changed her identity to Ren Anle

  • the bandit mountain king of Anlezhai

  • gaslighting gatekeeping and girlbossing her way through the capital and court

  • exchanges her 30,000 soldiers in the hopes of entering the Eastern Palace and becoming Taizi-fei (consort of the Crown Prince, the Crown Princess)

  • wants to avenge her Di family, who was falsely accused and thoroughly wiped out by the Han family

  • has a sharp tongue, but beneath it all, she has a good and loving heart

  • very traumatized

Han Ye (韩烨)

  • the Crown Prince of Da Jing, His Royal Highness, Taizi-dianxia

  • has been waiting for his betrothed, Di Ziyuan, for ten years

  • fiercely protective of the people he loves

  • incredibly loyal and stubborn as well

  • he's so pretty that Ren Anle has to mention it every time they see each other

  • so selfless that he might die from it...

  • also very traumatized

  • sets new standards for romance

Summary

In this life, the Crown Prince of Da Jing, Han Ye, once asked two questions.“Ren Anle, are you willing to stand shoulder to shoulder with me, raising Da Jing into prosperity?”She replied: “Not willing. Dianxia's⁽¹⁾ country is for Dianxia to serve alone.”“Di Ziyuan, are you willing to give up your hatred and enmity, and join hands with me in this life?”She replied: “Not willing. The entire Di family was executed, mine and Dianxia's enmity is as deep as the sea.”The stroke that was her life's most impossible situation⁽²⁾ was drawn with the greatest of ease. Because she was never willing to forget— ten years ago, an imperial edict caused the Di family to collapse. He had personally sent her into a situation where all her blood relatives were lost, and she was sent away to Jinan.

Ten years later, she became a surrendered general of the southern border. He allowed her to strategize the seven formations, protect the six armies, turn the tides in their time of crisis, and defend the stars. Him and her have been chased by the crimson past for too long, and in dealing within the circle of secrets and power schemes, they neglected the inner order of youth.Turns out that what he adored was the same woman; turns out that love was a deep blue, and needs neither words nor proof.Di Ziyuan, the ten years of turbulent memory between you and Han Ye are being forged into the bitter beacons of the three kingdoms.And your blood-bathed battlefield, with the Emperor's string song chanted among the rustling dust... Will it be a sword brimming with brilliance, or will it be a sword succumbed to death?

1. 殿下: Your Royal Highness / His Royal Highness
2. 进退维谷: idiom; no room to advance or to retreat, zero way out, trapped within an impossible dilemma

Live Action

The Legend of AnleStarring Dilireba as Di Ziyuan/Ren Anle
and Gong Jun as Han Ye39 Episodes
Available on Youku