Starting With Stealing the Eldest Princess as My Bride

[Completed]

Also check out my new novel, "After I Sent the Wrong Text to My Icy Boss." The blurb is at the bottom.

Blurb:

Everyone knows Her Highness the Eldest Princess is the most beautiful woman in the world, brilliant and talented, perfect in every way except one: she has terrible luck.

She thought she had married an honest man, but behind her back, he was a ruthless killer who coveted her military power.

She endured unspeakable torture before she died.

The moment she realizes she can drag her broken body back to the past, she decides to repay every bit of suffering she endured in her previous life!

Xie Ning kills the older brother who tried to murder her from the start. Thanks to her resemblance to her late brother, she successfully assumes his identity and inherits his fortune, as well as... the Eldest Princess.

She thinks she can live a peaceful life by taking his place, but on her wedding night, she discovers the Eldest Princess with both legs broken and blood covering her body, staring at her with icy eyes.

Xie Ning: ???

Later, the Eldest Princess, as a woman, bows first to the realm, then to the heroes who gave their lives, and finally to the countless common people at the Rite of Sacrifice to Heaven. She ascends the throne and makes a name for herself throughout history.

With her identity completely exposed, Xie Ning feels relieved. Knowing she cannot stay by the new emperor's side, she doesn't even make it out of the palace before she is tied up and dragged back.

The new emperor's crimson eyes are filled with an utterly chilling darkness. She slowly removes her black-and-gold imperial robe, then traces a finger over Xie Ning's chest.

"Do you really not want your sister-in-law anymore?"

"I don't... don't take it off! The imperial robe is what I want!"

"..."

---"After I Sent the Wrong Text to My Aloof Boss"---

Mai Suisui has been a junior employee at a company ever since she graduated.

The work is exhausting, but she's content when she sees a salary every month that's enough to live on.

Sometimes, when she catches sight of her boss's beautiful, distant face, she can't help looking for an extra couple of seconds.

Under normal circumstances, the two of them would never have any other kind of relationship.

Until one day, after getting drunk, she does what she usually does and sends messages to an unused phone number, treating it like a "confessional."

[Aaaaaah!]

[It's so comfy lying in bed!]

[I'm exhausted. Can someone come rescue me?]

The next morning, she wakes up to find a reply among her messages.

[?]

Yu Nian is aloof and difficult to get along with, an untouchable beauty whom no one dares to pursue.

But later, someone at the company claims that the icy CEO is in love!

The rumor causes an uproar.

No one believes it. One person even goes along with the chorus of denials, then goes home and shares the news with her online girlfriend.

Mai Suisui: [I'm dying! Someone said my boss is in love. No way, absolutely no way!]

Yu Nian: [...Why not?]

Mai Suisui: [She's always scowling and has no human touch. Who'd dare date her? What if she's frigid?]

Yu Nian: [...]

Later, Mai Suisui lies on her side in bed, trembling with fear. The woman behind her has eyes like silk, and slides her hand from her waist toward the small of her back as she murmurs in her ear:

"Hmm?"

"Am I frigid or not?"

"I want to spend New Year's Eve with you."

Mai Suisui stammers, "...But, aren't we already together?"

"You're mistaken. I said I want to spend New Year's Eve together."

"..."

[Reader's guide]

1. Both leads are each other's only partner. Happy ending.

2. There is no actual familial relationship in this novel. Before their identities are revealed, and while their relationship exists in name only, nothing physical happens!

3. An imagined ancient setting. No need to fact-check historical details.

Theme: Never let sincerity go unappreciated.