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"My childhood friend is a genius, and he's mixed-race and handsome enough to get away with anything."

Campus | Dating before falling in love | Rivals pretending to be a couple | They seem official, but actually have no claim on each other

Blurb:

[Alluring, flirtatious foreign princess x cold, abstinent crown prince]

He plucked her petals and crushed her stem, forcing her to submit;

She unsettled his heart and disturbed his calm, making him yield.

Neither of them can run away.

Si Rong is the name of a flower.

Its supple stalk supports plump, dazzling petals, layered upon one another in brilliant crimson, touched with gold and purple.

Its roots reach into a vast stretch of earth, fine and soft yet tightly clinging to the soil, with a remarkably tenacious will to live.

Fearless and free.

Princess Si Rong, from the Ahan'er grasslands, was dazzling and bold, with a temperament wilder than an eagle's. She arrived in the capital after trampling all over the crown prince's dignity.

When they first met at the Tanhua Terrace, everyone thought: Heaven is blind. Who knows whether this beautiful, audacious foreign princess will survive three months in the capital?

Especially since she offended the crown prince as soon as she arrived. Their feud only seemed to deepen, and people advised her not to keep heading down a dead-end road.

But while no one was looking, Si Rong and the crown prince secretly began playing a game of hiding their affair in plain sight.

Crown Prince: "If you want to be on good terms with me, why pretend that we're at odds?"

Si Rong: "Your Highness, don't you think sneaking around is more exciting?"

Crown Prince: "So this is the kind of Ahan'er princess you are."

Si Rong: "You're not exactly an abstinent crown prince, either."

One brazenly flirted, while the other responded with cool composure.

She had the vast grasslands at her back; he had the towering imperial palace. Their unspoken encounters beneath the surface of deep waters could never see the light of day.

Though their affair had to stay hidden, they could not stop its momentum. Amid ominous clouds and treacherous schemes, they remained wary of and drawn to each other, stealing moments of pleasure. Every fiery glance exchanged in public carried a secret longing.

Before You Read:

Alternate universe, many original worldbuilding details. 1v1, happy ending.

World setting:

Two powerful realms: the vast grasslands of Ahan'er versus the orthodox Central Plains dynasty of Beizhao. (They originally couldn't stand each other.)

Other smaller tribes and nations:

1. Wulu Kingdom, in the desert west of Beizhao. (It is destroyed from the start, but appears again later.)

2. Nanli Kingdom, southwest of Beizhao.

3. The southern and eastern shores of Beizhao border the sea and suffer from pirate attacks. The Sea King is named Ale.

4. The Saihan tribe, northeast of Ahan'er.

5. The Choushan and Tatar tribes, northwest of Ahan'er.

6. The mysterious Mount Amon, directly east of Ahan'er. (East of Mount Amon is an ungoverned region full of all sorts of people; farther east lies the sea.)

Theme: May love and peace always endure