Your Highness Is Once Again Recklessly Testing the Limits of Your Disguise

Ning Yao has two secrets.

Her first is that her younger sister, Ning Xiao, the only family she has, suffers from a strange illness.

Her second is that she has prophetic dreams.

Whatever she dreams of is bound to come true.

She meets a guard named Pei Ji in the courtyard of her cousin Pei Taiyi, the great demon king.

Pei Ji takes good care of her. He teaches her how to deal with the difficult aunts in the household and helps her copy out the punishments ordered by her eldest cousin.

But one afternoon, Ning Yao has another prophetic dream.

She dreams that she is locked inside an exquisite little cage made of gold, with a bracelet of golden bells fastened around her left wrist. The bells chime whenever she moves.

“I've wanted to do this for a long time.” “Pei Ji” seems to become someone else. In his dark eyes, possessive desire burns like a torch. He bends down and kisses her, enthralled, making the bells ring without pause.

“I'll lock you away, and keep you by my side forever.”

When Ning Yao wakes, she opens her eyes to find “Pei Ji” offering her a plate of freshly baked sweet pastries.

He smiles warmly and gently strokes her cheek with his thumb.

Looking at the face before her,

and thinking of the man in her dream,

Ning Yao feels conflicted.

Big brother, so this whole time, you've been putting on an act...

*

As the notorious commander of the Nine Nether Bureau, Pei Taiyi is a name that strikes terror into the hearts of everyone in the capital.

One day, a young cousin comes to the Pei household, and everyone starts gossiping.

Someone tells Pei Taiyi, “Your cousin is truly beautiful.”

But Pei Taiyi toys with a sharp knife and replies with an amused smile, “Beauty lies in the bones, not the skin. Peel that skin away, and all you're left with is a pile of bones.”

Yet on a day when the wind dies down and the snow clears,

he leans against a treetop while the girl below, dressed in pink and cradling a tiger cub he found, smiles radiantly, as lovely as rosy clouds and morning dew.

“Big brother, is this your cat?”

“Yes,” he hears himself reply.

*

He knows that what she likes is nothing more than the mask he wears.

But since she likes it so much,

he might as well leave it on.

Reader's note:

1. One-on-one romance, happy ending, a story for true romance fans.

2. The leads are not blood-related. The male lead's background takes a turn later on.

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Coming next: The Best in the Palace, the Worst at Home

Song Keke has a breathtakingly beautiful face, but she's a concubine-born daughter of the Song family, and she's so bad at talking back that she loses every argument with her sisters. She only thinks of the perfect retort once she gets home, when it's too late to do anything but regret it.

One day, she finds a badly injured man in the kitchen.

He seems kind and clever, so Song Keke saves him and becomes his good friend.

She asks him, “What do you do if your older or younger brothers bully you?”

The newly crowned emperor Zou Xun, who has just killed his imperial elder brother to seize the throne, thinks this question is right up his alley.

Zou Xun: “Thanks for asking. I usually turn them into bean paste.”

*

She asks the man, “What do you do if your older or younger brothers bully you?”

The newly crowned emperor Zou Xun, who has just killed his imperial elder brother to seize the throne, thinks this question is right up his alley.

Zou Xun: “Thanks for asking. I usually turn them into bean paste.”

*

Overnight, Fourth Miss Song, the worst at arguing, becomes a master at it, able to make anyone she argues with burst into tears.

No one can figure out what happened.

Until one day, the imperial carriage stops outside the Song residence.

A handsome man in imperial yellow steps out and says to her in a humble voice, “Still mad? Don't be.”

“Then promise you won't make me hurt like that again.”

“Mm. I promise.”

Theme: Strive to change your fate