The Princess Has Arrived

#A scheming male lead gives ground at every turn, falls deeper inch by inch, and willingly submits.#

Zhao Mingyin is the only daughter of the powerful Grand Princess Who Guards the Nation. As beautiful as a hibiscus, she is a peerless beauty and the most noble princess in all of Great Qi.

Unfortunately, after her mother died, her aunt, Empress Sun, kept whispering in the emperor's ear that Zhao Mingyin lived extravagantly and behaved arrogantly and recklessly, provoking widespread public anger.

To appease the people, the emperor issued an order sending her back to her ancestral home, the Mu family of Jinchuan, to be properly disciplined.

Everyone around her was worried for her.

They say the Mu family of Jinchuan is strict, and the head of the family, Mu Shuyan, is just as fearsome as his name suggests: he's known locally as a living King of Hell. Could Princess Mingyin, notorious for her wicked reputation, possibly find a happy ending there?

Sure enough, when the princess's carriage reached Jinzhou, she was stopped right outside the city gates.

Zhao Mingyin gently lifted the carriage curtain and met a pair of sharp eyes.

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Mu Shuyan is both the most outstanding head the Mu family has ever had and the feared lord of Jinzhou. He rules with an iron fist, is deeply calculating, and doesn't take the imperial family seriously at all.

So when he first saw Princess Mingyin behind the carriage curtain, he didn't even let her through the Mu family's gates, sending her off to a quiet Buddhist temple to learn the rules.

Who could have guessed that before three days had passed, he would personally escort her through the Mu family's gates?

Later, when he heard that she wanted to return to the capital, the man's powerful arm blocked the doorway as he stared at her with dark eyes. "Your Highness has come all this way, but I, the lord of this city, have yet to show you the hospitality you deserve!"

Later still, when he heard that Zhao Mingyin wanted to marry into a neighboring country, the man slowly traced a map across her creamy skin within the gauzy curtains of the bed. His voice hoarse, he said, "Your humble servant and these ten thousand miles of mountains and rivers are all at Your Highness's command."

Reader's guide

1. The leads are not close relatives. They are more than five generations removed.

2. Both leads are each other's first and only, one-on-one, happy ending.

Theme: When husband and wife are of one heart, their strength can cleave gold