Did the Crown Princess Just Blow Her Cover Today?

Qi Yao transmigrates into a book, landing in a story about a scumbag who grovels to win back his wife.

Good news: She arrives early in the plot, and she's a powerful, high-ranking character.

Bad news: That powerful, high-ranking character is the awful man in this groveling romance.

The awful Crown Prince Qi Yao wounds the gentle and considerate heroine, Yin Huaiyue, until she is broken in body and spirit. In the end, he gets the full treatment: cremated, with his ashes scattered.

Qi Yao, who once applauded that ending, bursts into tears.

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Qi Yao decides to change the plot. Before tragedy can strike, she treats Yin Huaiyue with the utmost respect and carefully hides her secret identity as a woman.

But... the heroine isn't quite like the one described in the book.

Gentle and virtuous?

No. She's as aloof and distant as a flower on a mountaintop, her feelings impossible to read.

Only her beauty matches the description.

One day, Qi Yao suddenly realizes something.

Yin Huaiyue... might be reborn.

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Qi Yao decides to drop everything and run, only to discover that she can't...

The younger prince, cold and sinister in the book, grows ever more dependent on her. "Elder Brother, I just want to stay with you."

The prince of Beijiang, a gentleman on the surface but devious underneath: "If Your Highness wants me to keep your secret identity as a woman, shouldn't I receive some compensation?"

The ministers who once called her utterly mediocre: "Your Highness is the only one fit to shoulder the burden of ruling the realm!"

Even Yin Huaiyue, usually so distant, begins looking at her strangely.

With the consummation of her marriage fast approaching, Qi Yao gives up and comes clean. "Crown Princess, I'm actually a woman..."

"Isn't that even better?"

The bewitchingly beautiful Crown Princess murmurs lazily in her ear:

"After all, I am a man."

Qi Yao: ???

Only then does she remember the Crown Princess's younger brother, Yin Huaijue, who made a name for himself at a young age in the book.

...Is it too late to put my secret identity back on?

A timid girl disguised as a man x a reborn, sinister male lead who takes revenge on his sister's behalf. The heroine is adored by everyone. One-on-one, both are each other's first and only partner, with both hiding secret identities.

Reading Guide:

The heroine has no golden finger and isn't powerful from the start. The story takes its time.

The heroine does not transmigrate as a man; her biological sex does not change.

An imaginary setting with many author-created details. Please don't nitpick the historical accuracy.

Coming soon: My Senior Sister Chose to Live Happily Ever After with the Demon Lord. Please add it to your reading list! Here's the blurb:

"Yan Hanyun is ruthless, vicious, and unpredictable. Guarding the Demon Lord is a death sentence. Surely no fool would volunteer for that job?"

Actually, someone did.

Jiang Man, the sword peak's senior sister, was that fool, and she was delighted. She wholeheartedly believed the sect treasured her and had given her an important mission.

Day One.

"How are things on the back mountain?"

"Reporting to the Sect Leader, Senior Sister Jiang hasn't neglected her training. She spent all night practicing her sword in front of the Demon Lord."

A few days later.

"Sect Leader, someone has been... been tied up!"

"Don't make a fuss. Yan Hanyun is highly skilled. How could Jiang Man possibly hold him off? Just send someone else."

"No, it's... it's Senior Sister Jiang who tied up the Demon Lord..."

A month later.

"Sect Leader, Senior Sister Jiang was seriously injured on the back mountain."

The man seated above them remained indifferent. "If she isn't dead, she'll be fine. And even if she is... dying would be her honor."

Even the disciples couldn't stand watching Jiang Man toil without complaint. Then, one day at last...

"Senior Sister Jiang ran away with the Demon Lord!"

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For years, Jiang Man worked day and night, enduring every hardship to climb past a crowd of scions and become the senior sister of the sword peak.

She thought her future was bright, only to be treated by the sect as a tool to be summoned and dismissed at will. After one disappointment too many, she finally snapped.

In a cave dwelling on the back mountain, Jiang Man looks at the Demon Lord beside her, who has spent every day deceiving and coaxing her.

"You want to form a pact with me, don't you?"

The day she left, her sect sneered: "Jiang Man has formed a slave pact with that vicious, treacherous demon. She'll reap what she sows."

But ten years later, Jiang Man returned safe and sound.

The man at her side surveyed the crowd with a mocking smile, his posture haughty, yet he called her with intimate affection:

"Master."

Jiang Man: I'm the boss here. Want to talk?

A sweet, clueless airhead x a ruthless, cunning villain (original form: snake)

Theme: Don't take any relationship lightly, and don't define anyone too quickly.