Your Heart Is Like Iron

Also known as The Aquatic Plants and Animals' Guide to Love / Bai Ze and Her Bunch of Suckers / The Life of Yan Qing, the One Everyone Looked Down On

Bai Ze, the mightiest divine beast in The Classic of Mountains and Seas, x Yan Bing, the useless little crown prince of the Dragon Clan. Traditional stepmother fiction, a full-on pure-hearted white lotus manipulating an explosive-tempered dragon prince.

P.S. The version of The Classic of Mountains and Seas in this book is entirely made up by the author.

Strong female lead! Strong female lead! Strong female lead!

Content warnings: gender-bender romance, stepmother fiction, romance mixed with girls' love and boys' love, Mary Sue saintly heroine adored by everyone, phoenix among women, BE warning, corruption warning, slight incest, male pregnancy, a self-controlled love-struck character, and the male leads are only fit for the supporting cast.

Synopsis:

The reputation of the young lord of the divine realm is known throughout the Three Realms. It is said that she is an outstanding member of the Bai Ze clan, able to bring good fortune, avoid calamity, and bless all living beings. While still young, she achieved the astonishing feat of personally killing the Demon Lord Yanke and bringing the war between gods and demons to an end. Yet the illustrious young lord Bai Ze was defeated by a single word: love. Yan Qing, the thirteenth prince of the Dragon Clan, had pledged himself to her, only to turn around and marry an imperial princess from the Heavenly Court, leaving Bai Ze the subject of gossip throughout the Three Realms.

Many years later, the dragon prince treasured by Dragon King Yan Qing carelessly walked right into her line of fire, trying to make her the heroine of his domineering-love story. He met an unfortunate end, body and soul destroyed...

But this tangled affair, where one loved and the other did not, was nowhere near over. Human love was such a difficult thing to escape, and a calamity threatening heaven and earth was just around the corner. Young Lord Bai Ze suddenly understood: Rather than obsess over someone with whom she could never find a happy ending, she might as well roll up her sleeves, build a career, and retire early!

Theme: A subversion of the devoted male lead, and how a love-struck person can learn self-control