The Marquis's Eldest Daughter Is Actually a Man in Disguise?

(The new novel The Tang Dynasty's Pearl and the Rebel An Lushan is currently updating. Hope you'll stop by~)

A story about a mature, confident woman who transmigrates into a book, raises a child, and falls in love with a sweet young man.

(A mature and steady mistress of a marquis's household with a stable core x the Ning'an Prince, a beautiful and tragic figure: first the gentle, introverted eldest daughter of the marquis's household, then a sweet, obedient puppy in public and a ruthless wolf in private.)

Su Ruolin transmigrated into a book and became the mistress of the Anding Marquis's household in a revenge novel. She saved her stepdaughter, who was about to be possessed by the revenge-seeking heroine who would transmigrate into her.

Seeing the little girl covered in chilblains and so thin she was skin and bones, Su Ruolin's heart went out to her.

From then on, her goal was to raise her daughter to be plump, rosy, fragrant, and soft.

But life is full of misfortune. On the day the emperor died, her daughter disappeared and was never heard from again. Su Ruolin wept herself sick every day.

After searching desperately for her daughter for three years, she was nearly assaulted by enemy soldiers when the Turks invaded the capital.

At the critical moment, the Ning'an Prince, who had just pacified the northern frontier, appeared out of nowhere and rescued her with a single swift stroke of his blade.

"Thank you, Your Highness!"

Wait, something's not right. Why does this Ning'an Prince look so much like the daughter who disappeared three years ago?

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The Ning'an Prince, Xiao Huailin, who looked down on the whole world, had another identity: he had once been the eldest daughter of the Anding Marquis's household.

He was the illegitimate child of the Anding Marquis and his first wife, raised as a girl so he could survive.

Even he had believed he was a girl until the day his birth father came to claim him.

His birth father wanted him to seize the Great Chu realm, so he put him through training so brutal it nearly killed him countless times.

"If you can survive, then you'll be worthy of being my son."

When his father learned he had feelings for his stepmother, he sneered:

"If you want to commit an act that defies all the world's conventions, you must first take the whole realm."

Then he would take the realm. Only by securing the throne could he be with the one he loved openly and with dignity.

After all, anyone who dared to criticize them was dead.

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There was a rumor in the army that the Ning'an Prince had two faces: one as gentle as water, the other ruthless and decisive.

But no one had ever seen His Highness being gentle as water. Where had that rumor even come from?!

Xiao Huailin: (throws away the enemy commander's head) (wipes blood from his face) (runs over) (blinks) I saw a few puppies in the enemy commander's mansion. How about we go pick a cute one to raise?

Su Ruolin: ...You threw their owner's head around like a ball. Are you sure the puppies won't be afraid of you?

She gave him the only warmth he had ever known in this world. He carried that warmth through thorns and frost, through winds of bloodshed and storms of violence, until he became the backbone of the world.

Theme: May we live long and share the beauty of the moon, even a thousand miles apart.