As Fair as a Lotus

1v1: sharp-tongued, falsely aloof Daoist priestess VS scheming prince pretending to be a spoiled playboy

Fuju, a princess of Xiliang, was born with two different-colored eyes, one jade green and the other gold. The royal family considered her a freak and kept her hidden away.

Later, the Great Liang emperor's iron cavalry slaughtered her entire clan.

From then on, she was forced onto the path of revenge, disguising herself as a Daoist priestess who seemed untouched by worldly concerns.

Her unusual eyes granted her innate divine power. Like a nimble, graceful jade cat, she was impossible to catch.

Yet this all-capable jade cat let her guard down for a moment and tumbled straight into a peach-blossom trap set by a hunter.

Fuju crouched in the pit, her jade-and-gold eyes narrowing as she sighed, "People's hearts are hard to read."

She had mastered every skill under the sun, but never learned how to read people's hearts.

Because his birth mother had humble origins, Xiao Heng was never favored by the emperor. Yet he dared to reach for the impossible.

That Daoist priestess who knew the heavens and earth and could turn the tide was the sharpest blade he could wield in the struggle for the throne.

He rolled up his sleeves and painstakingly dug a pit.

But when he glimpsed the jade cat at the bottom, bewildered and at a loss, he felt an inexplicable hand clutching at his lifeline.

Leaning over the well, he asked, "Hey, I'll let you out, but you can't bite me, okay?"

The priestess blinked her jade-and-gold eyes and nodded emphatically.

Who knew that the moment she turned around, she would swipe at him with her claws and make a quick getaway?

Xiao Heng ground his teeth in frustration. "You heartless little kitten."

But that little kitten made a full circle and came back to his side.

She rubbed against his wide sleeves. "Benefactor, would you like me to read your fortune?"

Xiao Heng would gladly have sold his very soul to her.

He had completely forgotten that he was the hunter who had tried to trap the jade cat.

Fuju curled her lips into a smile. So people's hearts weren't that hard to read after all.

Theme: The kitty has gotten addicted to flirting with me.