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Delusional Princess × Jianghu Thief
Chu Yan is the current emperor's most beloved younger sister. She is unmatched in beauty and talent, extravagant and debauched, and the true chosen one of destiny.
She looks down on everyone and has never had the slightest interest in women.
That is, until the Lantern Festival, when she rescues a beautiful woman and falls for her at first sight, only to be coldly rejected.
So, furious and humiliated, she sets her sights on the woman's older brother and forces the newly acclaimed top scholar to marry her and become her consort.
But this older brother is very strange.
By day, he is timid and weak, treating her with polite respect. At night, he becomes a completely different person.
His eyes brim with affection, his figure is upright, and he no longer shows the slightest regard for a gentleman's propriety.
Chu Yan is suspicious, but her nighttime husband pleases her so thoroughly that she becomes utterly besotted and looks forward to every evening.
The top scholar is sent to Jiangnan to investigate a case, and rumors begin to spread. Chu Yan hears that her consort has taken a mistress outside the home.
Furious, she grabs a knife and goes to catch them in the act. But when she kicks the door open, she finds the woman she fell in love with at first sight.
Chu Yan freezes, and the knife slips from her hand. She asks in astonishment, "You're the pitiful, peerlessly beautiful mistress... ?"
The man's mouth twitches. "..."
Shen Fulang is speechless. Why... does he run into her every single time he dresses as a woman?!
#Basically, I want to write about a gloomy, brooding male lead who hides in a corner, dressing as a woman by day to play a delicate, frail flower. But the princess, who seems like a little ray of sunshine but doesn't give her affections away freely, has her eye on him. Since the heroine has no interest in women, she simply lusts after the male lead's aloof older brother. The male lead, full of resentment, takes his brother's place on the wedding night, using all sorts of tricks to make the heroine yearn for him every night, while he himself falls deeper and deeper...
#The male and female leads were already engaged. They were separated by an incident in their youth, then reunited.
#Content warnings: The heroine is not a virgin; the male lead is. Plenty of cross-dressing and descriptions of beauty. Love that encompasses body and soul. A domineering princess brings down an aloof beauty. A very fantastical premise, with all sorts of potentially unacceptable plot points.
Theme: Self-reliance and strength
