[Steel-Spined Crown Princess * Unlucky Beauty Marquis Commandery Princess]
For one reason or another, the heroine disguises herself as a man, while the hero disguises himself as a woman. Their physical bodies are perfectly normal.
The eldest royal son, Gao Lie, is female and likes men.
At eighteen, she put on women's clothes for the first time in earnest and went to visit a brothel. There, she stared at the beauty reclining on the prime minister's bed until her nose bled all over her face.
And then the beauty stabbed her to death. To die beneath a beauty's skirt, surrounded by soft jade and warm fragrance, was a romantic way to go.
Gao Lie didn't become a ghost. She was reborn at the age of twelve.
Her mother's political enemies had kidnapped her, and she was lying on a cart beneath a burial shroud.
Gao Lie lazily pretended to be dead, because she knew someone would come to save her.
After a flash of swords and blades, her savior made a dazzling entrance.
That lovely face gradually merged with the beauty who had stabbed her to death in her previous life.
Gao Lie: May I ask your honorable name, savior?
The beauty: You Menglong, Commandery Princess of Leyang.
Remembering the sight she'd seen on the brothel bed, Gao Lie was shocked. So this guy was disguising himself as a woman!
A man pretending to be a woman to impersonate an heir was a crime of deceiving the emperor. And why would a nobleman's son be involved in such a shady business at a brothel?
Gao Lie thought: Rather than letting him go astray later, I might as well seduce him first and enjoy the benefits myself.
Four years later, Cheng Yong ascended the throne and issued a general amnesty.
The eldest royal son, Gao Lie, came running into court: The eldest daughter of the Marquis of Leyang is peerlessly beautiful and brilliantly talented. I beg Your Majesty to grant me a marriage!
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You Menglong has two weaknesses:
First, he's a man. Second, he's a beauty.
So although he was born into a noble family, he had no choice but to endure and survive, carefully plotting every step.
Even so, one wrong step led to another.
His own mother secretly plotted against him, forcing him to give up his commandery princess title to his youngest sister.
The current prime minister used his secret to blackmail him, treating him as a plaything beneath his skirts and tormenting and humiliating him.
Though he was helpless and mired in filth, he still carefully gazed through the cracks at the moonlight from fourteen years ago, shining over a clear breeze and drifting clouds.
[Reading Guide]
. An alternate world, no historical accuracy, lots of original settings, plain language, happy ending;
. Childhood friends brought together by fate;
. Their disguises are a matter of survival, and each has their reasons;
. From the start, both know the other's gender, but at first the heroine doesn't know that the hero knows she's a woman;
. More to come...
Currently serializing: My Older Brother Is Such a Worrywart
[Slow journey through the Spring and Autumn, Warring States, Qin, and Han periods]
[Immersive experiences of stories from Records of the Grand Historian, extras updating]
My older brother is Wu Zixu, the second son of Wu She, a Chu official during the Spring and Autumn period.
He's violent-tempered and stubborn. He dug up a grave and whipped a corpse over a disagreement, and even when his current employer has made his murderous intent perfectly clear, he still stands his ground and talks back.
But he's my brother. What can I do? Save him. (Spring and Autumn arc)
My older brother is Bai Qi, a great general under King Zhaoxiang of Qin.
He's won countless battles and killed countless people, so all of the Central Plains tremble at his name. He holds the title of Great Good Fortune Maker and was named Lord Wu'an. His achievements are so great that they threaten the throne, and there's no higher rank to give him. One more step and he'll lose his head.
He's my brother. What can I do? Save him. (The Blue Surpassing the Master arc, Part One)
My older brother is Han Fei, a prince of Han and the greatest Legalist thinker of the late Warring States period.
He stutters, but he's brilliant. Li Si can't stop thinking about him, and Ying Zheng falls in love with him at first sight. Wouldn't it be great to help Qin govern the country? But he refuses to bow his head, so he offends the Qin court and ends up imprisoned.
He's my brother. What can I do? Save him. (The Blue Surpassing the Master arc, Part Two)
My older brother is Han Xin, the unparalleled strategist and military genius of the Chu-Han contention.
He's a heaven-sent genius who commands troops like a god, impossible to imitate and never surpassed. I dare say that without him, Liu Bang would have been beaten to a pulp by Xiang Yu. And yet, not long after the realm was unified, he rebelled?
But he's my brother. What can I do? Save him. (The Qin Arc)
Theme: Social harmony is everyone's responsibility.
Women are respected, but who gives birth to the child? If women are respected, the child should be born to a woman, right?
The setting is pretty good, but the timeline is not rigorous. Some confusion
Kaiwen spreads flowers!!!
By the way, since it involves important matters, why not just wait at the door alone, pretending that something is going on, but actually just watching? Oh, of course, there must be more than one entrance and exit to this underground maze. Well, I just think it's a bit too smooth for the heroine to hear such an important thing so easily (…). I personally despise it, so don't scold me.