[A cool, calculating beauty who seems innocent but is sharp inside vs. a seemingly spoiled but actually looks-obsessed, guiding-type crown prince | Six-year age gap | Both leads are each other’s first and only | Happy ending]
Lu Chenglin is a crown prince who was guaranteed his position from the start. His birth mother was the Great Tang Emperor’s beloved first love. He says:
A struggle among nine sons for the throne? No need.
The Imperial Observatory predicts that a baby girl born in the western part of the capital at the hour of the rabbit on the third day of the first month of Jiaping Year Fifteen will be born with the fate of a phoenix.
After meeting the heroine, who is said to have been born with the fate of a phoenix, he dismisses her:
“If I don’t feel anything for her, how could she possibly have been born with the fate of a phoenix?”
Later, a cool young woman wearing a veiled hat catches his eye. Lu Chenglin takes the initiative to speak to her, then eagerly escorts her home. He says:
“Only a beauty like her deserves to be my princess consort!”
Cui Xinyi was born a concubine’s daughter. Fortunately, the legitimate matriarch of the family was foolish, and her grandmother favored her, so she never suffered too much.
But she has always known that her grandmother is raising her as a pawn for the family’s marriage alliances.
She refuses to accept that fate. Only by constantly finding ways to climb higher can she gain a voice of her own.
(The heroine is 14 and the hero is 20 at the start. They are both quite young, and the story is about growing together. Neither has a perfect personality.)
