The Aloof Eldest Princess Made the First Move

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Tough, straightforward, clever, sunny puppy girl and cold-faced, warm-hearted, tsundere, aloof, ambitious schemer

Two powerful female leads, political intrigue, and character growth

Wang Ahua died a violent death on a rainy winter night.

After becoming the Crown Prince's assassin at eighteen, her life had been terribly dull. She was either killing someone or on her way to kill someone.

In the end, the Crown Prince and the Grand Princess fought over power, and Wang Ahua died at the hands of the Grand Princess's people.

As she died, Wang Ahua felt delighted. She was finally dead! She could be reborn into a better life!

She kicked the bucket, then opened her eyes again. The sky was falling: she hadn't been born into a better life, or even reincarnated at all. Instead, she had returned to when she was seventeen.

Her family was dirt-poor. Apart from a gambling father, a timid mother, and a baby brother still in swaddling clothes, she had nothing.

That year, she hadn't been sold to the Crown Prince as an assassin. Now that she'd been given another life, Wang Ahua was determined that, no matter how hard things got, she would have nothing to do with power struggles!

Before she could even begin living out her dream of a peaceful farming life, the Grand Princess surrounded her home with her people.

In this life, she somehow, inexplicably, became the Grand Princess's personal bodyguard.

Unbeknownst to her, the ice beauty in the carriage smiled and murmured:

"This time, I found you first."

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[Bonus scene]

Wang Ahua: Starting over means I'm going to be the heroine of a farming story!

Grand Princess: A farming story? Give me that political intrigue story!

/After spending some time together/

Wang Ahua: So the Grand Princess really understands me! A gentleman dies for one who understands him. Grand Princess, I'm willing to risk my life for you!

Grand Princess: Who said I wanted you to risk your life... I want you to give yourself to me! Become my wife!!!

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This novel could also be called Wang Ahua Wonders Every Day Why the Grand Princess Hasn't Come to Seize Her by Force Yet.

From Hua Bao's perspective, it's also called The Woman Who Killed Me in My Last Life Made Me Her Personal Bodyguard This Time.

Those Years I Risked My Life by Day and Gave My Body by Night After Becoming a Personal Bodyguard

From the Grand Princess's perspective, it's also called

Those Years I Sent My Illiterate Wife to a Private School to Learn to Read

Those Years I Kept My Politically Clueless Wife Safe in the Princess's Residence

Those Years My Wife Mistakenly Believed I Killed Her in Our Last Life

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[Reader's guide]

* This novel has only a GL romance! Only GL! GL!

* Both heroines eventually have independent career arcs. Our Xiao Pei becomes emperor in the end. I promise there won't be any woman-bashing, so read without worry.

* The plot and romance get equal focus. (I'm terrible at writing blurbs. Although the blurb talks about the two cuties interacting, this novel does have a political intrigue main plot.)

* This novel focuses on portraying women in all their variety. The male supporting characters are either tools or antagonists, so if you can't accept that, please read with caution.

* Comments are open. Feel free to leave comments and follow along. Every comment motivates me to keep writing.

* I couldn't afford an artist, so I made the cover myself (awkwardly twiddles fingers) (the top right corner shows our Hua Bao and Yi Bao).

* Weibo: @XiaoJuZiDeng12345

Fishy, Big Sis Picked Me Up! Upcoming novel blurb:

Naturally clueless, kind little sunshine VS genius, cold-faced, warm-hearted female Taoist priest and demon hunter

The entire main cast is female, and women are the default. All job titles and forms of address are assumed to refer to women unless explicitly marked as male.

This is a story about a honeycomb briquette and a solid brick.

Wei Songyue and Wei Sixi have eight brain cells between them.

Wei Songyue has eight hundred and one brain cells, while Wei Sixi has negative one.

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Three years ago, demon hunters invaded the north in the name of purification and slaughtered the demon clans. The demons suffered heavy losses and retreated north, while the demon hunters drove most of them to the Longevity Ravine at the far northern edge of the continent. The people were no longer troubled by monsters, and the demon hunters' reputation among the public soared.

But some demons refused to retreat north. The merfolk, for instance, stayed in the Moon Sea, their ancestral home, and fought the demon hunters to the bitter end. In the end, they were wiped out.

As a demon hunter who captured every demon she encountered, Wei Songyue naturally took part in that purification campaign. But when she went to extract the inner core from an uncivilized mermaid, the fish suddenly transformed into human form and sweetly called her Big Sis.

Wei Songyue: ...

Wei Songyue had a younger sister who had died, and she had called her that too.

She couldn't tell if she'd just softened for a moment or if she'd lost her mind, but Wei Songyue picked up a little tail. Her little tail followed her around on demon-hunting missions and kept calling her Big Sis.

Wei Songyue had never let anyone get the better of her with words, but this naturally clueless little tail she'd picked up had her completely at a loss, time and time again.

Whenever Wei Songyue was about to lose her temper, her little tail would say:

"My Big Sis is the greatest demon hunter in the world!"

Wei Songyue was completely at the mercy of this fish.

She raised her like a little sister. She didn't know when those feelings began to change.

Love comes without warning, then sinks deep into the heart.

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Fishy, this winter, was picked up by a softhearted big sister.

Ever since she could remember, Wei Sixi had known Wei Songyue as her Big Sis. She couldn't remember her parents, her friends, or even who she was, but somehow she remembered Wei Songyue.

Ever since she was little, she'd suffered from a strange illness. When it flared up, walking felt like stepping on blades, and her legs hurt terribly.

Big Sis said it was an illness she'd had since birth, and that it could be cured. So she took Wei Sixi on the road, hunting demons while searching for medicine.

They weren't looking for some pill, but for the Shennong Cauldron. Big Sis said that if they found the cauldron, she could be cured.

She followed Big Sis around. When Big Sis hunted demons, she handed her talismans. When Big Sis insulted people, she chimed in. Along the way, she saw all kinds of strange and fascinating things while hunting demons. The more she saw, the more she felt that evil didn't lie with demons, but in people's hearts.

Every day, she dutifully drank her bitter medicine, looking forward to the day she would be cured. Then one day, a demon told her that the Shennong Cauldron couldn't cure illness at all. It could only refine demons...

Wei Sixi secretly poured out the medicine Big Sis gave her every day. A tail grew from her legs...

She was a fish!

Her family had been killed by demon hunters. Her parents and siblings had all been skinned alive and had their cores extracted.

Her Big Sis... had once had a younger sister named Wei Xi.

Big Sis's sister, who died young, was called Wei Xi, while she was called Wei Sixi... Wei Sixi didn't understand: during all the sunsets she'd watched with Big Sis over the years, who had Big Sis thought she was watching them with?

Her Big Sis pointed a sword at her. "A demon hunter should exterminate every demon they encounter."

"Demons deserve to die."

Great waves surged across the sea as Wei Sixi asked, "Then why did you let me go, keep me by your side, and seek medicine to cure me?"

"Wei Songyue, did you really never fall for me?"

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[Reader's guide]

* This is a story about Big Sis becoming a wife, with a faux-incest setup.

* The plot and romance get equal focus, and the story is structured around episodic demon-hunting adventures.

* There will probably be a groveling arc later, but it has a happy ending.

Theme: Love life and be willing to help others