The Ultimate Favorite

[Sickly, unhinged princess x love-struck, aloof beauty]

Everyone knows that Princess Zhengyuan is enamored with Cui Yanzhang.

Cui Yanzhang comes from a noble clan and possesses the beauty of a celestial being. He's an untouchable flower on a high peak, one no one dares to pluck.

The princess, however, is reckless and willful, flouts all propriety, and has committed countless misdeeds. She's exactly the sort of person the old-fashioned, cold and stern Cui Yanzhang loathes most.

To everyone's surprise, the princess relentlessly pursues him until she plucks that flower.

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Cui Yanzhang despises the princess.

She's mad, wicked, and violent.

But from childhood into adolescence, the princess gazes at him with a fierce, obsessive fixation for ten years.

She uses every means at her disposal to take him from his betrothal.

She watches him obsessively, caresses him, and licks and bites him when desire takes hold.

In front of everyone, she openly favors him. Her eyes are always fixed on him alone.

She neglects her frail body, recklessly and wantonly mistreating it. Only he can stop her and make her value her life.

She cannot live without him.

But he never imagined that the princess's possessive obsession with him was nothing but a nightmare she had spun over ten years.

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An old, yellowed notebook lies open, its handwriting growing from childish to mature.

"He dislikes Consort Yuan, but jumped into the lotus pond to save her cat. He's such a kind and softhearted big brother. (^-^)"

"He sees me no differently from a pillar in the imperial palace. I have to make him see me, even if all I can inspire in him is the deepest hatred."

"He's compassionate by nature and likes to feel that someone truly needs him."

"I must die when he loves me most, at the moment he will regret most... That way, he will remember me forever and fulfill my last wish by protecting Mother."

Every word pierces the heart, killing without drawing blood.

Cui Yanzhang's gaze turns vicious, no trace of the proper gentleman remains.

Since she made herself the bait and deliberately provoked him, she can forget about escaping his grasp, even in death.

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Princess Zhengyuan's only weakness is her mother, the empress, who is confined to the palace and has been unable to walk properly for years.

However, the imperial physicians declared when the princess was a child that she would not live past twenty.

When she is seven, she learns that the Cui family has a ninth son. He comes from a top-tier family, is a once-in-a-generation genius, and is pure and flawless.

Over the next ten years, Zhengyuan goes from naive to resolute. She calmly watches him, analyzes him, and forces herself...to fall in love with him.

Reader's Guide:

HAPPY ENDING! HAPPY ENDING! HAPPY ENDING!

They save each other. No angst.

An alternate world, with no real-life inspirations.

Theme: Treasure the person before you.