I Told You, I Really Do Like You

Xi He never imagined that she wasn't the emperor's biological daughter, but a fake princess who had been switched at birth. In just one month, she went from being cherished by everyone to being sent off to marry into a barbarian tribe.

She suffered terribly among the barbarians, washing her face with tears every day, until help from the Central Plains finally arrived.

The man she had once called her cousin approached her expressionlessly, carrying a bloodstained blade.

Her eyes lit up, and she asked cautiously, "Did Father send you to find me?"

Covered in blood and radiating a murderous aura, the man looked at the girl coldly and mercilessly crushed her last hope. "His Majesty has never once thought of you as his daughter."

The barbarian tribe was wiped out. The fake princess sent there to marry must have died in a foreign land, too.

Xi He was timid. Whenever her prophetic dream reached the crucial moment, she would wake in a fright after Pei Shu said those words, too afraid to dream on.

Her identity would be exposed sooner or later, and she couldn't rely on her father's favor. She didn't want to be sent away to marry, so she had to find a way to marry herself off first.

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Pei Shu, heir to the Duke of Dingguo, came from a distinguished family and held power over the court. Every young lady in the capital was smitten with him. They said that although he had the physique of a military man, he wasn't crude or rough like one, and that any woman who married him would surely be happy.

But they didn't know that beneath his gentle, restrained facade lurked a feral beast.

He had slaughtered entire cities of foreign tribes just to rescue the woman he held dearest. He had also locked her in a golden cage where no sunlight could reach, making her family believe she was truly dead.

He watched her from the shadows, unable to have her, then took her by force, driving her to the brink of despair.

Reborn, he had planned to try a different approach: hide his fangs, don a sheepskin, and take his time winning her over.

Who could have guessed that the girl who had always despised and looked down on him would come to him of her own accord?

A pampered, fragile, hardworking, self-rescuing beauty with her head in the clouds x a controlling, sinister, obsessive, vicious mad dog

Both leads are virgins; the male lead is reborn.

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Theme: Strive forward and never give up.