Putting on an Act with the Villainous Prince

Prince Ding rescued a beggar girl and, to train her into a useful "weapon," gave her a false identity: a concubine in his manor.

She was grateful to him. She took blades and bullets for him in the wilderness, and brought warmth to his chambers. She trained by day and shared his bed at night. What set her apart from other women was that she knew her place and never asked for a man's love, making her perfect for a ruthless man like him.

Sometimes he wondered: Was she a woman who knew her own limits, or was she simply stupid? No matter what he asked her to do, even something despicable, she was willing.

It wasn't until the day she stabbed him through that Prince Ding finally understood: she didn't ask for his love because she didn't love him. She had willingly spent ten years undercover by the side of the man she loved, all for the satisfaction of that one stab. So she really was stupid after all, wasting ten years of her youth.

And he was just as much of a fool, falling in love with another fool.

The Crown Prince offered a thousand taels as a bounty for assassinating Prince Ding.

He Yujian spread out all ten fingers.

"You want ten thousand taels?"

"A hundred thousand."

The Crown Prince nearly spat blood. "Yujian, I know how you feel about me. I'll give you a title, and as for the money... what do you say?"

"I want banknotes."

Men were all no good. Prince Ding was scum, and the Crown Prince was even worse. Everything she did was for herself, yet these lousy men all thought she was willingly serving as their pawn. What a joke.

He Yujian took the banknotes and ran away that very night, afraid the Crown Prince would realize there was a valuable little bundle in her belly.

One bitterly cold, hungry night, He Yujian stood at the edge of a cliff with nowhere left to go. The person approaching made her tremble even more than the Crown Prince's pursuers.

Was he man or ghost?

The man's jade thumb ring gleamed in the moonlight. He curled his lips and advanced toward her step by step. "Yunu'er, long time no see."

Scum. Why weren't you dead yet?

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