The Tyrant's Delicate Darling

A fake-gentle, truly violent regent x a softhearted little beggar who cries easily

Blurb: From the moment Xiao Man could remember, she had been a beggar at the City God Temple in Nanling.

One day, as Xiao Man sat at the temple pitifully eating half a steamed bun, a noble man suddenly appeared. He stood before her like a god descending from the heavens, and Xiao Man stared up at him in a daze.

The man asked gently, "Would you like to come with me?"

Xiao Man blinked. Before she could answer, the man had already crouched down and was gently wiping her dirty face with a handkerchief.

"Come with me, and you'll never have to live like this again."

Looking at the man's handsome face, Xiao Man slowly blushed and nodded without a shred of dignity.

From then on, the man doted on Xiao Man to no end. Bathed in his boundless affection, she inevitably fell in love with him.

But Xiao Man didn't know that the gentle man in her eyes was the regent, feared throughout the empire!

She once asked, "Ming Xi, what do you want most?"

Ming Xi was peeling a mandarin for her. "More than anything, I want you by my side."

Xiao Man smiled happily and promised, "Don't worry. I'll never leave you."

Xiao Man looked forward to the day she would marry Ming Xi. But the day before the wedding, she learned why he had treated her so well and indulged her without limit.

He had mistaken her for his departed moonlight, Princess Kang Ning.

She was only a stand-in.

On the day of the wedding, she left.

The gentle, refined young lord instantly became a different person. "Find her. If you can't, then to hell with this city."

Xiao Man, when you're tired of playing, you have to come home. If you're still not home by nightfall, I'm not sure you'll be able to bear the consequences.

Note added on November 30, 2020: Blurb screenshotted.

Theme: Loving someone means making yourself a better person