After Becoming the Tribute of the Seahorse Princess [GB]

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Ji Mingying, the Beastman Empire’s third princess, has fought countless battles and earned numerous military honors. The only defeat she ever suffered was in a duel against Pei Li when they were young.

Later, after the Federation lost the war, Ji Mingying personally added the final clause to the armistice: former Federation Admiral Pei Li would be presented to the Beastman Empire’s third princess as a gift of peace.

At the banquet, the Federation delivered its tribute.

It was a young man, once the Federation’s “Sword,” now stripped of his mental powers, blindfolded, and locked in a golden cage, barely clinging to life.

She hooked a finger beneath the chain around Pei Li’s neck. His pale cheeks flushed, his warm, damp breath fell across her palm, and the sweet scent of ripe pear pheromones filled the air.

Excellent. She liked this gift.

Everyone thought Pei Li was finished.

With Ji Mingying’s vengeful nature, she would surely find every way to torment him and pay him back a hundredfold.

Just as everyone was waiting for the day Ji Mingying would tire of him, ruin him, and send him back to the Federation, news came that Pei Li was pregnant.

Ji Mingying: Admiral Pei has long legs and a perky butt. No wonder he’s so good at having babies.

Pei Li had once imagined his future.

Perhaps he would die in some war, or perhaps, once the war was over, he would return to his hometown.

What he had never imagined was that the Federation, to which he had devoted years of service, would strip him of his rank, imprison and torture him, then hand him over like an object to the princess of an enemy nation.

Nor had he imagined that one day he would care so much about every little thing someone did.

If she tossed aside her coat, he would put it away for her.

If she got so busy that she forgot to eat, he would cook for her himself.

Even a message she occasionally forgot to reply to could leave him staring at his communicator for ages.

Until one day, Ji Mingying suddenly asked him with a mischievous, slightly cruel smile:

“Pei Li, are you in love with me?”

He fell silent and reached out to straighten her collar.

“What about you?”

A capricious, carefree heroine who loves to tease people x an honest hero who was tricked out of both his body and his heart

[Reading Guide]

1. Gender Bender, male pregnancy. The heroine is a seahorse beastman, and the hero is an omega. You can refer to how seahorses reproduce to see how she gets him pregnant.

2. The hero won’t stay cold and tough for long. He’s actually a devoted homemaker type, a pure-hearted male omega prone to insecurity and separation anxiety.

3. The heroine isn’t truly evil. She just loves joking around and teasing people. She’s a little self-centered and mean at first, but she isn’t bad.

4. One-on-one romance. There are other male supporting characters, but they’re all adorable, so they don’t count as rivals.

5. Romance-focused, with a little angst for the hero.

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