[A cool-headed, world-weary, clever princess vs. a scheming, cunning, green-tea male consort]
A female-audience novel told from the male lead’s perspective. The protagonist’s morals are questionable, and he’ll stop at nothing to get what he wants.
Ji Qingzhi, the eldest princess of Nanyu, is a peerlessly beautiful woman.
Everyone agrees on that.
Her fate, however, is tragic.
That too is an undisputed fact.
Not long after she was born, her mother fell gravely ill and passed away. She and her brother, ten years her senior, depended on each other in the cannibalistic imperial palace.
At last, she made it to sixteen and was about to become engaged to her childhood sweetheart. Then her father died, and she had to observe mourning for another three years.
When the mourning period finally ended, she had just gotten engaged when her childhood sweetheart was sent to fight on the frontier.
After waiting anxiously for a year, he finally returned victorious. Just as they were about to discuss their wedding, an assassin from an enemy kingdom killed him.
And so, at twenty, the eldest princess was left alone.
Who in the streets wouldn’t sigh and say, “What a wretched fate”?
Shen Hanhe didn’t sigh. Shen Hanhe was delighted.
She wasn’t married! That was great! If she wasn’t married, he could marry her.
So Shen Hanhe used a face that looked eight-tenths like her childhood sweetheart’s to pull a scam on her.
(A body-double romance. Shen is one scheming bastard.)
