Princess, Are You Still Going to Trick Me into Marriage?

Novel blurb:

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A story about how what goes around comes around, and how a sweet little puppy turns into a wolfdog. The male lead is quiet but racy; the female lead is timid but tough.

Princess Kangping swims away from an arranged marriage and is rescued by a shy young scholar washing ink by the river.

With nowhere else to go, the princess tricks him into taking her home: "You've already seen my body, so you'll have to take responsibility for me."

The bashful scholar nods, blushing.

The princess eats well and recuperates at the scholar's home, while also making a pass at him... Then, afterward, she slips away without a care.

After four years of roaming the martial world and making a fortune, the princess returns to the capital, only to find herself inexplicably caught up in a murder case.

Who would have thought that the senior Ministry of Justice official presiding over the case would be the very same scholar from back then?

The timid scholar has become the cold King of Hell. The princess fawns and grovels, turning herself into a loyal, strapping lackey.

But the King of Hell keeps closing in, and the princess keeps backing away. Then she hears him say, "My lady, the flowers along the road have faded. It's time to come home."

When the flowers bloom along the road, you may return at your leisure. When they fade, my lady, it's time to come home.

[Bonus scene]

Back then:

The bashful scholar blushed and said, "I must observe mourning for my mother, so I cannot marry just yet. You'll have to wait a few years."

Later:

The bashful scholar finally caught on...

- "Du Hengsi, weren't you supposed to observe mourning for your mother?"

- "My lady must have forgotten. The three years of mourning are over. I promised to marry you, so marry you I shall. I chose an auspicious day last year, and we already performed the wedding rites."

- "I was in Jiangzhou last year. Did you wed a ghost?"

- "Yes. I heard from someone in the palace that Princess Kangping died on the way to her political marriage. So I did indeed wed a ghost."

Reading guide: 1. One-on-one romance. The heroine is a timid, over-imaginative little drama queen; the hero is a taciturn, flirtatious, fake innocent, and jealous to a fault.

2. Happy ending, sweet romance. Includes mystery and crime-solving, with the hero solving cases while pursuing the heroine.

3. Set in a fictional world. Please don't nitpick the history.

Premise: What goes around comes around.