Spoiled and Unrestrained

[Spoiled, Brazen Airhead Beauty × Deep and Unfathomable Ice Prince]

# Deliberately Seduced a Pretend Gentleman Who Was Actually a Black-Hearted Old Fox, Then It Backfired #

# Beautiful, Vain, and Controlling #

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The legitimate eldest daughter of the Marquis of Jiancheng, she was famed for her peerless beauty throughout the capital, her looks unmatched beneath heaven. Yet she was extravagantly wasteful, arrogant, and domineering. As beautiful as a celestial maiden, but with the nature of a venomous serpent, her wicked reputation spread far beyond the capital.

As a result, no suitable family of standing came forward to ask for her hand. Even the younger girls of the Zhen household were already engaged, while the eldest daughter remained unmarried.

Throughout the capital, some pitied her, others mocked her, and some could only sigh in regret: You were born a beauty, so why must you be so vicious and cruel?

What sort of extraordinary man would dare take such a rouge-painted tigress as his wife?

Zhen Yier despised her useless father, who fawned on the powerful, and loathed her two-faced, treacherous stepmother. She also regarded her legitimate younger sister, who went around pretending to be pitiful and delicate, as a thorn in her side.

But one day, her younger sister became engaged to the eldest son of one of the capital's most prominent families. Her stepmother and father were overjoyed. From then on, her sister would be the principal wife and mistress of a great clan.

Her younger sister also came to her with a smile. "Sister, you are beautiful, and I cannot compare. But in all the capital, what worthy man would marry a woman like you, narrow-minded and infamous?"

Zhen Yier clenched her teeth.

How could she stand being looked down on by the person she hated most? At the very least, she had to make sure her younger sister could never smile again.

She looked around, then fixed her gaze on the future Crown Prince beside the emperor's throne at the palace banquet. He had been urgently summoned back from the frontier and was soon to be invested as heir to the Eastern Palace.

Zhou Kui kept his eyes forward, letting that unmistakably scorching gaze lock onto him.

He raised his golden goblet and took a slow sip with lowered eyes.

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The Zhen girl of the Marquis of Jiancheng was beautiful and alluring, yet arrogant by nature, vicious, jealous, and suspicious. She falsely accused loyal subjects, poisoned her mother, and butchered her father, a wicked woman forsaken by heaven, earth, men, and gods.

Yet the emperor alone cherished her. Once he took the throne, he crowned her empress, indulging and protecting her with tender affection.

The emperor was an enlightened ruler, benevolent and righteous, yet brought low by a beguiling fox. How lamentable, how tragic.

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Reader's Guide:

1. As usual, this is a devoted 1v1 romance with both leads' first and only partners, and an exceptionally pure-love tone.

2. The male lead is eight years older than the female lead and is very controlling.

3. The female lead is an extraordinarily beautiful, spoiled airhead who loves to make a fuss. She is impulsive and not kindhearted.

4. Contains a later forced-love-and-abduction plotline.

5. Fictional setting, with a jumble of dynastic clothing and customs.

1v1, happy ending.

Synopsis completed on 2025.5.23, record saved.

Theme: Love