Spoiling the Proud

Song Zhiwan, Emperor Xuanzhen's most beloved little princess, was born with a face as lovely as a flower and eyes as bright as the moon. Most striking of all were the two symmetrical red moles at the corners of her lips, which lent her beauty an alluring charm.

Han Zuo, head of the Beiting Bureau, was infamous for his cruel, cold-blooded methods. No one could have guessed that a man so decisive and ruthless would become fixated on the two red moles by the little princess's lips.

Whenever Han Zuo saw the pair of tiny red marks, like cinnabar dots on the girl's lips, he seemed to lose his soul. At every moment, he could barely contain the urge to sink his teeth into them.

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The moment Song Zhiwan learned that she and Han Zuo were to be married by imperial decree, she foresaw a miserable future and did everything she could to call off the engagement, only to meet one setback after another.

With no hope of escaping the marriage, she decided to trade her own peace of mind for peace throughout the realm. She put aside her princessly airs and set out to become a bewitching, irresistible beauty.

She thought a man as cold and sinister as Han Zuo would only respond to the arts of a famous courtesan.

But when he saw her in a sheer red gown, a flush appeared in those cool, dark eyes.

Like desire.

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At first, Han Zuo regarded the delicate little princess as a toy to tease. He tricked her, frightened her, and bullied her, certain he would enjoy seeing her eyes redden and tears gather in their starry depths.

He never imagined that one day, her tears would make him willing to have his sword broken and his pride crushed, even to be confined in the imperial prison.

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That day, Song Zhiwan could no longer endure his torment and decided to flee.

In the dead of night, as her carriage was about to leave the imperial city, someone suddenly blocked its way.

A cold, pale hand, missing a finger, lifted the carriage curtain, revealing a sharp-featured, handsome face.

Han Zuo looked at the beautiful woman whose brow bore a flower-shaped mark he had left there. His gaze shifted to her smooth, pale neck, and he said softly, "The bite marks from my canines on Your Highness's neck haven't faded yet. I came especially to apply some medicine."

Song Zhiwan felt the faint chill against her neck, unaware that the moment he learned she had fled, the usually composed head of the bureau had panicked for the first time in his life and tasted fear.

A delicate beauty forced to seduce × a yandere assassin who falls hard

A yandere meets a sweet, gentle girl, so this story could be called "Two Peerless Beauties."

★Reading Guide★

① 1v1, both leads are each other's first, happy ending

② The male lead is not a good person and has no morals, but he becomes better later on as the female lead heals him

③ The male lead's cruelty has its causes, but from beginning to end, he puts the female lead above everything else (he is even harder on himself)

Coming soon: "Pampered Darling"

When Mu Yan was young, she was sickly. A revered monk told her parents that if they wanted her to survive, they would have to raise her as a boy and keep the truth secret.

So nearly everyone in the capital knew that Minister Mu had a delicate, beautiful young son named Mu Yan: a boy by birth, but with the heart of a girl.

There was even a saying: "If that young master of the Mu family were a girl, all the beauties in the world would pale beside her."

Mu Yan lived safely to the age of fifteen, only for an imperial decree to order her to marry the Grand Tutor's daughter.

Everyone knew that the Grand Tutor's daughter was the most beautiful woman in the capital, and that she was the beloved of Jing Yu, the decisive and ruthless prince of Prince Jing's household.

Everyone thought: Mu Yan will surely be killed by Prince Jing before long.

Sure enough, on the wedding day, Jing Yu stormed into the wedding banquet with his guards.

Looking at Jing Yu's dark, brooding eyes, Mu Yan thought, He's finally here. If he hadn't come soon, I would have been done for.

She assumed Jing Yu had come to take his beloved, Wen Yueru. Who could have guessed...

In front of everyone, Jing Yu carried her away.

As Jing Yu lifted her onto his horse, Mu Yan cried out in panic, "Sir, you've taken the wrong person."

Jing Yu's eyes reddened, his gaze falling on her soft, red lips. "You are exactly the one I came to take."

Mu Yan: ???

Everyone thought that after Jing Yu abducted Mu Yan, he locked "him" in prison and tortured him day and night.

Only Mu Yan knew that on the very first night after he took her away, he stripped off all her clothes and disguises, then said in a low voice, "You don't have to pretend to be a man with me."

From then on, Jing Yu kept her in his bedchamber and "tormented" her every night.

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Before long, word got out, and a rumor spread through the capital: On his wedding day, Prince Jing abducted the groom not to punish him, but because the groom was the one he loved.

From then on, whenever Mu Yan, still dressed as a woman, met anyone, they would sigh, "A fine young man, forced to dress as a woman and reduced to Prince Jing's bedmate!"

Mu Yan: ...How do I tell them I'm actually a woman?

Theme: Embrace the world with kindness, and make tomorrow beautiful for us all.