Did the Crown Prince Learn How to Be a Person Today?

Blurb One:

Word has it that the Crown Princess of Great Qi was abducted by spies from Ye Liang. Crown Prince Qi Xiao personally led an army south, surrounding Ye Liang's border city with a hundred thousand elite soldiers for over three months.

Shen Ze, the least favored little prince of Ye Liang, was stationed at the frontier, worrying himself sick.

The city was out of arrows and food, and the mad dog outside the walls showed no sign of backing down. But the problem was, they hadn't abducted any Crown Princess!

With no other choice, Shen Ze picked a dark and stormy night and sneaked into Qi Xiao's tent.

When he saw the Qi Crown Prince's face, Shen Ze fell silent.

The person he'd flirted with and then run away from in Great Qi two years ago was actually the Crown Prince of Great Qi?!

Remembering that he'd used a disguise spell, Shen Ze said guiltily, "Ye Liang doesn't have your Crown Princess!"

With the air of a strictly impartial official, Qi Xiao showed no mercy. "If you can't hand her over, then you'll take her place as my Crown Princess."

Shen Ze: ???

What an extreme one-for-one trade.

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Ye Liang was a weak and insignificant kingdom, so it had no choice but to send its little prince off for a political marriage.

When Shen Ze arrived at Qi Xiao's Crown Prince's residence, one of the senior maids looked strangely familiar.

Shen Ze: Wait!!? Aren't you the Crown Princess who was "abducted"??

That night, the usually stern Crown Prince knelt by the bed all night.

Qi Xiao: "I was wrong. There never was a Crown Princess. You're the only one I want."

Blurb Two:

Qi Xiao had studied the classics since childhood and contemplated the affairs of the world. Romantic love was dull beyond measure.

When he was eighteen, he saved a graceful young man who insisted on repaying him with his hand in marriage. For the first time, Qi Xiao's heart stirred, and he vowed to treat him well for the rest of his life.

Who could have guessed that his youth would be over by the very next morning?

A flirt who passes through a thousand flowers without a petal clinging to him x a century-old tree that blooms overnight into a man-eating flower, a black-hearted man in white

A happy ending. A story about two scheming men acting opposite each other.

Theme: No empire is worth more than you.