To deal with pressure to marry, the young marquis Zhu Wanzhi, who is disguised as a man, claims she's fallen in love at first sight with a woman and won't marry anyone else. Everyone is curious about who could have captured the heart of Sangyang City's most notorious playboy. The very next day, a princess arrives in the city.
The princess is highborn and exceptionally tall. Even with a perpetually cold expression and an aura that keeps everyone at a distance, she's so beautiful that it's impossible to tell whether she's a man or a woman, and utterly captivating.
Rumors about the two of them spread like wildfire, and, by a twist of fate, they end up married. Only after their wedding does Zhu Wanzhi learn how difficult this princess is to please. She mustn't be more than three zhang away from “her,” nor come within three chi of “her.” She mustn't hide her monthly pay, spend the night away from home, keep dangling romantic entanglements with pretty girls, or spend too much time with her rowdy friends... Before she knows it, she has become Sangyang City's model case of a playboy reformed.
Later, the political situation in the capital turns turbulent. The princess leaves behind a divorce letter and hurries back to the capital. When the new emperor takes the throne, he orders her to come to the capital and serve as an official.
Without her mother's and “ex-wife's” restraints, young Marquis Zhu is over the moon. Today she drinks with colleagues, tomorrow she admires flowers with the new imperial exam graduates, and the day after she's a regular at Spring Breeze House. After three days without seeing young Marquis Zhu at court, the new emperor's face has been gloomy for all three.
After being coaxed into several cups of wine by the beauties at the pleasure house, Zhu Wanzhi returns home and walks straight into a solid chest.
She doesn't notice the golden dragon embroidery on the person's sleeves. Looking at a face just like her “ex-wife's,” she presses herself against it without hesitation. “What a beauty, sis. You look just like someone I used to know.”
Drunk, she presses her burning face against the long, clean hand, pale as jade in the moonlight, and recites, “An old friend enters my dreams, reminding me how much I miss them.”
The lonely moonlight falls across the new emperor's handsome face, making him look like a deity descended to earth. Only the desire between his brows shatters the illusion.
He lowers his head slightly and easily meets her lips. His kiss is clumsy, greedily biting and claiming her.
“Miss me so much,” Wei Shengyu repeats her words at an unhurried pace, wiping the rouge from her cheek with his cold, pale fingers. “Is this how you remember me?”
Early story: A smooth-talking young marquis disguised as a man * A cold-faced, soft-hearted princess disguised as a man
Later story: A heartless glutton who eats and runs * A proud, jealous, cold-faced underwear washer
Notes:
1. The male lead only disguises himself as a woman and borrows his older sister's identity as a princess for a time, for a particular reason. This will be explained in the story.
2. 1V1, both are virgins, happy ending.
3. A conventional straight romance, not gender-bender.
Theme: I am one of a kind
