After Failing to Act Sweet, My Archenemy Pinned Me Against the Wall and Kissed Me

[Both leads are devoted to each other + bickering frenemies + intense romantic tension + mutual falling in love]

[Clever, sly, sweet-on-the-outside, dark-on-the-inside study companion × proud, sharp-tongued, youthful prince]

Lu Haoning thinks the unluckiest thing about becoming a study companion in the palace was having to deal with the Sixth Prince, Liang Ce.

Sharp-tongued and black-hearted, he uses his royal status to make her life difficult in every way he can.

The first time they meet, he calls out her “glorious achievement” of taking her elder legitimate sister's place in the palace. After that, he picks on her every day and trips her up at every turn.

Lu Haoning: ...What kind of obnoxious pest is he?

She acts meek and respectful to his face, but behind his back, she curses his entire family tree.

Liang Ce also thinks the most entertaining thing in the world is meeting Lu Haoning, that scheming little cabbage.

She seems as docile as a rabbit, but she has eight hundred tricks up her sleeve.

He deliberately makes things difficult for her, and she counters with subtle barbs. He tries to embarrass her, only to get outmaneuvered every time and swallow his frustration.

Tsk, interesting. Very interesting.

But somewhere along the way, making things difficult turned into teasing, teasing turned into paying attention, and paying attention turned into feeling awful if he didn't see her for a day.

Lu Haoning thinks she must be going crazy.

She should hate him. She should stay away from him. But whenever those peach-blossom eyes smile at her, her heart always skips a beat against her will.

When he shamelessly pesters her for a scented sachet, she calls him childish, yet sews it more carefully than anything she's ever made.

He says that he always gets what he wants.

She thinks he means that handkerchief, that scented sachet.

Until one day, he leans close to her ear, his breath hot and his smile dazzling. “Lu Haoning, you can't get away from me.”

At last, she understands that what he has wanted all along is her.