No More Tears for Him

Episode 1

Annabel Fisher wakes with a jolt — she isn't dead anymore. Somehow she's back on the exact day her aunt proposed marrying her to Arthur Shaw, the fourth prince. In her last life, she loved him hopelessly and lost everything. At a celebration for Arthur's victory, the emperor asks her to play the qin. She claims her hand is injured and can't perform. But the injury isn't real. She hurt herself on purpose — anything to avoid being pushed toward Arthur again.

Episode 2

Annabel congratulates Arthur on his return, but she's already scheming to escape the match. The emperor notices her "wounded" hand and calls for a physician. Someone sees right through it — she'd rather injure herself than marry the fourth prince. A nobleman, Li Huaiyan, corners her and threatens to expose the trick, though he says he won't reveal it himself. Meanwhile, the emperor probes Arthur about taking Annabel as his princess. Arthur's answer is ice: if the Shen family won't work, he'll simply pick someone else.

Episode 3

Annabel remembers the truth of her first life. She schemed to marry Arthur, only for him to stand outside their wedding chamber all night, refusing to enter. She soon learned he already had a childhood sweetheart — and she was the villain who tore them apart. Even self-harm couldn't earn his warmth. Her aunt insists the Shen family must take sides between the fourth and second princes, promising safety only if Annabel becomes empress. Annabel refuses flatly: the Shen family serves the emperor alone, and this life she will never marry Arthur.

Episode 4

On the road, a fight breaks out ahead. Annabel's maid asks whether they should help. Her answer is cold — turn the carriage around. When someone accuses her of standing by while a life is at stake, she shrugs it off: that person won't die. But her refusal has consequences. The scene plants a quiet unease — Annabel's new ruthlessness may cost her more than she expects.

Episode 5

Annabel does step in after all, saving a life in the chaos. A voice calls her the city's finest fighter. Then Arthur appears, and the tension shifts. She thanks him for the rescue — or he thanks her. The lines blur in the noise, but one thing lands clearly: he tells her not to read too much into it. He says he won't cling to her. There's history in that coldness, and Annabel knows exactly what it means.

Episode 6

Annabel's maid worries she was too blunt with the fourth prince. Annabel says it's better to be clear — for both of them. Then a steward arrives with a reward from the Consort: a jade-and-pearl headdress, a gift for Annabel's "great service" in saving Arthur. But Annabel's face falls. She admits Li Huaiyan coerced her — save the fourth prince, or he'd report the Shen family. Her mother reassures her: if she doesn't want this marriage, her parents won't force her. Still, the trap tightens.

Episode 7

Annabel recalls how, in her last life, this same charity matter made her a laughingstock. Her mother suggests she handle the grain relief this time — a chance to show her face in the capital. Then bad news: her brother, an imperial guard commander, has been beaten. He failed to notice a disturbance on Orchid Street, and Arthur punished him to quiet public gossip. Annabel is furious — she saved Arthur, and her brother paid for it. On the road, her carriage meets another: Duan Mengmeng's.

Episode 8

Duan Mengmeng insists she's rushing to deliver grain to the eastern district, playing the compassionate savior. Annabel sees the act for what it is — the same tears that won the people's sympathy in her last life. Annabel proposes a split: Duan takes East Street, she takes South Street, so neither district starves. When Duan keeps posturing, Annabel cuts her down — is she feeding the people, or using them to build her own reputation? Humiliated, Duan vows to cry to Arthur and make Annabel pay.

Episode 9

Annabel's maid notes how oddly Duan Mengmeng behaved — of course, she's Arthur's childhood sweetheart, and she clearly resents Annabel. Annabel stays calm: in this world, a good reputation lets even wrongs be forgiven. At the relief line, the crowd gossips about how Duan blocked Annabel's grain delivery just to grab credit. The people are on Annabel's side. Then Arthur arrives. Is he here to defend Duan Mengmeng? The question hangs in the air as everyone watches.

Episode 10

Arthur says he came only to thank Annabel for saving his life — not to defend Duan Mengmeng. Annabel doesn't buy the courtesy, pressing him on whether it's genuine. She tests him: stay and help with the relief work. He agrees — "the people's welfare matters most." His attendants are appalled; a prince doing common labor. But Arthur stays, and something shifts. The untouchable fourth prince, pulled down from his pedestal, looks almost ordinary beside her.

Will Annabel really escape Arthur this time — or is fate already pulling them back together? Watch and find out.