Love Behind Vermilion Walls: The Impostor Heir Captures the Crown Prince’s Heart

[Woman disguised as a man + play the pig to eat the tiger + crown prince + scheming + devoted loyalist...] Ye Youning, the young heir of Prince Li's household who disguised herself as a man, thought she could live a carefree life until the end of her days. But who could have guessed that she was actually the emperor's illegitimate child? “Mother, there's something I've been bottling up that's making me miserable. I don't know if I should tell you... Your father is that man in the palace.” “You mean my father is the emp-emperor?” Ye Youning felt like her head was about to explode. But Princess Li went on to say, “It was a mistake I made when I was young and reckless.” Ye Youning wanted to cry but had no tears. So she was the mistake! Now the emperor had issued an edict summoning her to the palace. Wouldn't that expose her identity and get her killed? She could only grit her teeth and keep pretending to be a man for the rest of her life. But who could have imagined that something even more terrifying awaited her? She sneaked out of the estate and accidentally lost her virtue. To her horror, the man turned out to be the crown prince. This was bad, everything was falling apart. But it wasn't she who had fallen for him: it was the usually aloof and composed crown prince. The crown prince gazed at the jade-like youth by his side, tormented. “Could it be that I'm attracted to men...” Gradually, Ye Youning discovered that there was more to her birth than met the eye...