Tempting the Phoenix

[Heroine forcibly takes the hero] [Both reborn] [Both inexperienced]

The day Bao Yi died, she watched with her own eyes as Chu Suxing, once a hostage from an enemy kingdom, arrived at the city gates with tens of thousands of troops, his sword pointed at the capital.

Remembering how she had once imprisoned him in the Princess's Residence and forced him to be her male favorite for four years through threats and bribes, her face turned deathly pale. She jumped from the city wall of her own accord.

Reborn, she returned to the palace banquet where she had first kidnapped Chu Suxing.

But she still wasn't in time to stop it. Bao Yi gazed at the handsome, aloof young man before her, as fair and refined as carved jade, and sighed. "You got the wrong person. I told you to kidnap the newly appointed top candidate."

Only a fool would repeat the same mistake. Besides, the newly appointed top candidate was also handsome, elegant, and refined.

Convinced that she could avoid that disaster this time around, Bao Yi breathed a sigh of relief and went to untie the ropes around the young man's body herself.

But the moment she reached out, he seized her hand. She realized with a start that the ropes around him had somehow already been undone. He stared at her with a sinister look.

"Isn't having me enough for you, Princess?"

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In their previous life, Chu Suxing watched helplessly as Bao Yi jumped right in front of him. Torn between love and hatred, he was on the verge of madness.

Reborn, he waited with complicated feelings for the night Bao Yi would kidnap him, uncertain how he should face her.

But who could have guessed that the heartless woman would choose the top candidate right in front of him, and even get engaged to him afterward!

The night the decree was announced, Chu Suxing was so furious he climbed into the Princess's bed.

The girl looked at him through tear-filled eyes, half resisting and half yielding. "I... I already have a fiance!"

The man, driven mad with rage, gave a dark look and chuckled coldly. "That's why I'm here to be your secret lover."

Inspiration recorded on August 9, 2021.

Content warnings: The hero is the awkward type; the heroine is carefree. A brainless one and a grumpy one, not really.

More content warnings will be added when the story begins.

Illustration commissioned from artist Yama (non-exclusive).

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