The Huntress and the Grand Princess

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Qin Yuanlan lives alone in the mountains as a huntress. She has always longed for someone warm and caring to share the rest of her life with, and once rescued a lost woman, whom she married.

On their wedding night, Qin Yuanlan couldn't give her bride what she wanted. When her wife left, Qin Yuanlan's heart died too.

One day, she later comes across a beautiful woman with an extraordinary air. The woman is injured, and Qin Yuanlan takes meticulous care of her.

This time, Qin Yuanlan keeps her feelings in check.

Once the woman has recovered, a large group of guards arrive to escort her. It turns out she is the current dynasty's exalted eldest princess.

As they part, the eldest princess stands beside her carriage, gazing down at Qin Yuanlan with a smile as radiant and captivating as a flower in full bloom.

"Will you come with me?"

Qin Yuanlan falls silent. The eldest princess invites her again. "You are highly skilled. I happen to need a capable personal guard. After spending this time with you, I can see you have good character. Would you serve as my guard?"

Qin Yuanlan enters the palace and lives in a grand pavilion, with the same comforts and fine things as the eldest princess. It feels like a dream, a wonderful dream.

So being a princess's guard is this comfortable?

Later, Qin Yuanlan hears the palace servants call her the princess's consort. The princess is afraid of the dark at night, so Qin Yuanlan guards her room. When she falls ill, she wants Qin Yuanlan by her side. And when nightmares haunt her, Qin Yuanlan even stands guard beside her bed.

Later, she understands that the princess has never lacked for guards. The palace is full of elite fighters, and Qin Yuanlan can't compare with them.

What the princess lacks is a consort.

What is a consort?

Someone who guards the princess by her bed, and whom the princess truly loves.

(An adored, wealthy princess as the pursuing partner x an honest, loyal, doting, rugged top)

(Top POV, older top, happy ending, both each other's first)

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Leng Lan'er has a birthmark on her face. Without her hair to hide it, she looks ugly. They say she must have done terrible things in her past life, so the gods punished her with an unpleasant appearance in this one.

Her neighbors avoid her, and her family is ashamed of her.

She thought she was destined to live out her life that way, but then her family married her off to the fearsome huntress from the neighboring village in exchange for the money to pay her younger brother's betrothal gifts.

Leng Lan'er accepts her fate. As she leaves for her wedding, everyone laughs at her.

"That huntress is a freak, raised by wolves since she was little. She's cold-blooded. With Leng Lan'er's weak little frame, she'll be eaten as soon as she gets there."

"Exactly! Swallowed in one bite!"

Leng Lan'er listens to people talk about the woman who is now her wife. Back then, she thinks she is doomed and won't live much longer.

But later, she discovers that the huntress is nothing like people said. She doesn't eat people, she eats food. She's not cold-blooded, and she's kind to Leng Lan'er.

Later, the birthmark on Leng Lan'er's face disappears. She is glowing with health, and her life gets better and better.

Theme: Hard work brings prosperity.