The Princess Doesn't Wear a Princess Dress

Word has it that the youngest daughter of the Yu family in the capital has been found.

On the flight from the far northwest to Beijing, the girl made a fuss the entire way.

"What do her adoptive parents do? Why is she so attached to them?"

"They're government officials, upper-middle class at best. They just spoiled her rotten and turned that girl into a 'fool.'"

1.

Le Siwei was doted on by her parents for more than a decade, only to learn on her eighteenth birthday that she wasn't their biological child.

The distance was over 1,400 kilometers, but it was only half a day's journey.

Her clear, innocent life was gone forever.

After being caught and brought back from one escape attempt after another, Le Siwei gripped her phone tightly.

She treated her online dating partner as her only lifeline.

Later, she actually saw the man from her phone screen in her own home.

His face was a hundred times more handsome than in the photos.

But why was his personality so different from the one he'd shown her online?

2.

Fu Li has a flirtatious, womanizing cousin who loves using his photos to chat up people online.

Fu Li turns a blind eye and pretends not to know.

Until one day, his best friend's younger sister grabs him by the wrist.

The girl, whose name he'd only heard once in gossip, sweetly calls him "big brother."

Fu Li shudders. He can't stand spoiled rich kids with no opinions of their own and no independence.

But his friend begs him, so he can only grit his teeth and play the role of a "good boyfriend."

As he plays along, he discovers that Le Siwei isn't as useless as everyone says.

Her childlike sweetness is almost enough to make his scalp tingle, and the mathematical talent she reveals without meaning to feels like a gift from the heavens.

Fu Li is thrilled. He's the first to discover Le Siwei's shining qualities. She's no worthless pebble, but a precious jewel covered in dust.

Later on, before Fu Li can go looking for her, his amorous cousin calls first.

"Bro, I've decided to go straight. That girl you told me to keep chatting with is so adorable. I'm going to tell her the truth as soon as I get back to China."

"No, wait. I'll go to the Yu family and ask for her hand as soon as I get back!"

On the other end of the call, Fu Li nearly grinds his teeth to dust. For the first time, he understands what it means to shoot yourself in the foot.

3.

After returning to the capital, two clouds hang over Le Siwei's head: one is Yu Yingzhi, the other is Fu Li.

Yu Yingzhi is the daughter the Yu family raised for over a decade. Clear-minded and independent, she went abroad to attend university at fourteen.

Everyone compares Yu Yingzhi to Le Siwei.

Late at night, Le Siwei sometimes secretly wonders whether the mother who raised her for eighteen years might like her biological daughter more.

Only after meeting Fu Li in person does Le Siwei understand how admired and revered he is in the capital.

She is delighted and frightened. After testing the waters again and again, she finally dares to reveal all the feelings in her young heart.

But later, she watches two men with strikingly similar faces fight right in front of her.

Le Siwei is terrified.

Meanwhile, rumors spread through the capital again: the Yu family's youngest daughter is no pushover.

Not only did she earn admission to a top-tier university with multiple gold medals in math competitions, she also made the two close cousins from the Fu family fight over her.

Yet the person at the center of the gossip is at home, silently pulling the covers tighter around herself.

Le Siwei's face turns red, then pale, then red again. She can no longer tell who she actually likes.

[Math genius girl x top racing driver]

* A semi-fictional setting

* Both leads are each other's first and only

* Fu Li is the male lead!

* The heroine grows and changes significantly over the course of the story.

* The story features a fake-versus-real heiress plot and family relationships.

* Many original author-created details.

* Blurb revised on October 29, 2025

Theme: Pain is not a necessary condition for growth.