After Five Years as a Hostage, the Fake Princess Takes the World by Storm

[A beautiful, sweet-faced but secretly ruthless fake princess + an icy, noble true powerbroker] (The heroine is a dazzling beauty, truly unhinged beneath the surface. The hero seems like an iceberg, but is actually very innocent. They pretend to be siblings, and the hero is a prince.) Chu Yuqing is a fake princess. When the real princess returns, the royal family sends her to Danchi as a hostage for five years. If she died in Danchi, she would be hailed as a hero. But she came back alive, making her the greatest stain on the entire Nanzhao royal family. Rumor has it that, on the grasslands of Danchi, she willingly let several princes treat her as a plaything just to stay alive, and that she would sleep with anyone for a bite to eat. “No one wanted you to come back alive. If you had died in Danchi, everyone would have mourned you as an idealized beauty. But you came back covered in filth, and now everyone despises you!” For five years in Danchi, she endured humiliation and torment, securing a slim chance of survival for Nanzhao in the war. Yet when she returned, everyone wished she had simply died. So much for making him die to protect her honor! “Chu Yuqing, I've been waiting for you to come back.” Qi Yanjue had been plotting to win Chu Yuqing over for a long time. For these five years, he had climbed step by step to the highest ranks of court, all so she could use him. “From now on, you'll be my wife, and I'll be the blade in your hand.”