[Unrestrained, scheming peacock of a man x cool, wooden woman with a heart closed by heartbreak] [Rivals] [Love grows after repeated nights together] [Unaware of his own feelings] [Rivalry among suitors] [Fake reverse harem]
Bie Shuang spent five years disguised as a man in the imperial court, becoming the most trusted blade in the hands of Chu Yao, the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet.
She helped him consolidate his faction, investigate wrongful convictions, and fend off assassins. Carrying the bond of twenty years as childhood friends, she willingly became the most obedient stepping stone on his path to the top.
Until Chu Yao abandoned her, suffering from a venomous curse, to protect the Third Princess.
After coming close to death, Bie Shuang's burning heart finally turned cold.
When she opened her eyes again, she was delirious from the curse, and had somehow spent a wild night with her lifelong political rival, Wen Shuyu, the Crown Prince.
"We've served in the same court for three years, yet I never realized the Grand Tutor was a woman."
A careless voice came from behind her, low and hoarse. "Disguising yourself as a man and mingling in court is a grave crime of deceiving the emperor. Grand Tutor Bie, Grand Tutor Bie, you've got quite some nerve."
Everyone feared Wen Shuyu.
The Crown Prince was cruel, obsessive, and unpredictable, a living devil even his father feared.
Everyone thought that if Bie Shuang fell into his hands, she would at least be skinned alive, if not killed.
But no one knew that late at night in the Eastern Palace bedchamber, the young man would hold her close and coax her in a hoarse voice: "Shuang'er, say 'my darling Yulang' one more time."
