[A woman disguised as a man | Reborn from the womb | Empress by destiny]
[Steamy romance]
[A lazy girl’s growth story! Another day of training a madman to heel]
Li Qingxian is reborn from the womb in another world, and her birth comes with a shocking secret.
The Imperial Preceptor declares: The Li family will have no male heir, and the throne will pass to another house.
To protect their family and country, the Emperor and Empress raise her as a boy and hide her as the Crown Prince of the Eastern Palace. They keep up the ruse for fifteen years.
In public, she is a cool and dignified heir to the throne. In private, she treads on thin ice, afraid that her true identity will be exposed and bring ruin upon her.
The court is rife with hidden currents. The virtuous prince watches hungrily, while her gentle, refined imperial uncle secretly covets military power. She survives by relying on her transmigrated best friend’s divinations to avoid disaster.
An imperial edict sends her to Jiangnan to provide disaster relief, where she crosses paths with the cool, aloof Grand Tutor Ji Wuyou, who has placed in the top three in three consecutive examinations.
He has undergone secret training and lain in wait for years, all to await the arrival of the empress destined by heaven.
A carefully arranged aphrodisiac trap lets him discover that she is a woman.
In the next instant, the celestial Grand Tutor turns dark, consumed by obsession and madness, his possessiveness reaching the heavens.
Ji Wuyou’s eyes turn bloodred as he pins her down. “If I’d known you were a woman, I never would’ve let a single man near you!”
Li Qingxian answers in a soft voice, “You chose yourself to be the Crown Princess’s husband, and the young general was also...”
He lowers his head and kisses her brow, tender yet unhinged.
“Then I’ll take all of it back. In this realm, in the Eastern Palace, by your side, there’ll be no one but me.”
From then on, the false Crown Prince becomes the destined darling of the mad Grand Tutor.
He handles every court intrigue himself, bears every danger in the world on his own, and gives everything he has to dote on her alone.