The Crown Princess Only Wants to Go Home

◢ Bickering couple | Past and present lives | Sweet romance with a devoted couple

After transmigrating into the role of a doomed crown princess, Chu Yixiao discovers that transmigration is nowhere near as easy as novels make it sound!

The country is doomed to fall, and the crown princess is expected to be guilt-tripped into remaining chaste for the sake of the nation. No matter what she does, history cannot be changed.

But the condition for her to return home is that she survive the day the capital falls.

There's no way she can just lie low. To complete her mission and get home, she has to work harder and become stronger!

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Everyone notices that the Chu family's always-gentle, virtuous concubine-born daughter seems like a completely different person.

She opens a martial arts school, sells clay figurines, and reeks of money. And does a bandit chief follow her around calling her Boss?

She strides about with the wind at her back, mighty and imposing. How is she anything like that sickly concubine-born girl who never left her home?

Everyone munches on sunflower seeds and watches the show, waiting for the crown prince to cast her aside.

Only when the enemy reaches the city walls, the soldiers of Great Qi are driven back again and again, and the emperor has already abandoned the city do people finally panic.

"Your Highness, Crown Princess, save us!"

At that moment, Chu Yixiao, dressed in her wedding robes, binds the crown prince with three feet of white silk. She plans to lead the young men from her martial arts school, who have trained hard for days, armed with the finest weapons in all of Great Qi, to face the enemy general who historically drove the original owner of her body to her death.

But from beneath the city tower, a man sheaths his sword and says with a beaming smile, "I have long admired the Crown Princess. If His Highness the Crown Prince will let her go, I will withdraw my troops."

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Mo Wuhen is a prince of Northern Yan who has spent years undercover in Great Qi.

Born in the palace and raised in the wilderness, he is detached and free of desire. The only person he has ever held dear is Chu Yixiao.

He loves her.

Even though she is the crown princess of Great Qi.

But when he can finally stand openly by her side, she is about to go home.

Back to a world without him.

[Reading Guide]

- One-on-one, devoted couple, happy ending

- The heroine will return home. A sweet, sweet romance!

- Not a story about an overwhelmingly powerful heroine. She grows over time, and the two leads are evenly matched.

- The heroine is the same person from beginning to end. The hero does not fall for the original owner of her body; the reason will be explained later.

- The secondary couple's plot includes taboo tropes such as a ruler stealing a minister's wife and a false brother-sister relationship. These are a small part of the story, but readers who dislike them should take note.

Coming soon: The Palace Maid Who Served in the Emperor's Bed

[A thick-skinned little palace maid x a heaven-blessed prince who falls for her after convincing himself she loves him, then crashes and burns]

The Empress is selecting palace maids to initiate Prince Qin into the ways of the bedchamber. A Luo, a laundry maid, eagerly signs up for the generous monthly stipend of ten taels of silver.

Only after she's selected does she learn that an initiation maid is not a maid who helps you digest your food. She rests during the day and goes on duty in the evening.

Everyone comes to congratulate her. Even the senior maids who normally dislike her start sucking up to her.

But A Luo can't bring herself to be happy.

Prince Qin has the eyes of a dragon and the neck of a phoenix. He's handsome, and he's in excellent shape. Every young lady in the capital dreams of marrying him and spending their lives together.

But palace servants whisper that since Prince Qin is His Majesty's youngest son and a great favorite, he was spoiled from childhood. If anything fails to please him, people will suffer for it.

An old palace matron says that men like His Highness are especially demanding in bed, so the maids will have a hard time.

A Luo's heart sinks halfway into her stomach.

But this is the consequence of her own actions, and she has no one else to blame. A Luo silently accepts her fate.

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The first maid sent to serve him in bed doesn't return until noon the next day. She's covered in bruises and collapses straight into bed.

The second maid doesn't return until sunrise. Her face is rosy and she looks radiant. She can't stop praising Prince Qin.

The third maid returns that very night. She can barely hide her disappointment, saying it was all too quick and not fun at all.

Watching them day after day, A Luo is baffled. Are you all serving the same prince?

On the fourth day, it's her turn.

Parting the layers of curtains, Prince Qin leans toward her.

She doesn't dare meet his eyes. With her head lowered, she stammers, "Your Highness, are you... hungry?"

To her surprise, Prince Qin is easy to talk to. That night, the two of them share a delicious bowl of soup noodles.

Later, Prince Qin stops sharing food with her. He gazes at her tenderly and keeps urging her, "A Luo, have you finished eating?"

A Luo, who's been covering her sisters' shifts for half a month straight: "N-not yet."

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Prince Qin, Yan Zhou, falls in love with a little laundry maid.

After half a year together, he is completely besotted with the bright, sweet girl. He can only hope his mother will soon let him go establish his own residence, where no one will control him and he can live happily ever after with her.

He believes she feels the same way.

Who would have thought that

His father declares a general amnesty and allows palace servants to apply to leave the palace. She is the first to sign up.

He travels a thousand miles to her hometown, only to see her sitting across from a scholar in a low, thatched cottage. The scholar earnestly asks for her hand, and she blushes and nods.

Worst of all, she dares to use the silver and jewelry he gave her as her dowry!

The male lead's perspective: We love each other.

The heroine's perspective: Work is exhausting. I want to retire.

One-on-one, happy ending, devoted couple

Theme: What doesn't kill me will only make me stronger.