The Thieving Princess

Originally titled The Art of Power, now retitled The Grand Princess Regent ☆, ☆, ☆, ☆, ☆, ☆, ☆, ☆, ☆ This is a story about a founding princess who lies, cheats, steals, and does it all, and a descendant of the former royal family who love and fight each other. The heroine is a shameless rogue, the hero is noble and icy. They’re absolutely the perfect match! She is Li Yu, a master thief carefully trained by an international conglomerate. One day, a mission goes wrong, and she transmigrates into a chaotic age. She had been living a fairly comfortable life among the beautiful hills and rivers of Jiangnan, stealing chickens and fish, flirting with handsome men, and bullying her brothers. Then, for no reason at all, her scumbag father staged a rebellion, rallied the people, and successfully became emperor. And so the unloved, neglected thief of a daughter went from sparrow to phoenix overnight, becoming the founding emperor’s eldest princess. He is Yun Qi, a descendant of the former imperial family. His father was secretly poisoned to death by the late emperor on suspicion of treason, leaving Yun Qi an orphan. He was made Prince of Dongling and ordered never to leave his fiefdom. He is a calculating, troubled beauty, with a face that could topple cities and an otherworldly grace. He is as cunning as a demon, wise in statecraft, and ambitious for the realm. [The Scumbag Father] Military strategy? Father doesn’t understand it. The way to govern a country? Father doesn’t know. The art of being emperor? Can it make me immortal? Treating worthy people with respect? I’m the emperor. Why should I bow to anyone? Flip the table! If you don’t understand any of that, why are you emperor? Isn’t that why I have you? Good daughter, I’ll make you Protector Princess. Whatever you want, I’ll give you. Now go deal with these infuriating memorials for me. [The Brothers] Left Chancellor: Princess, when I’m working myself to death for the good of the country, could you stop looking lustfully at that other man and spare a glance for me, the one who works like a horse for you? Good brother, you must serve with all your strength until your dying breath. The tens of thousands of people in our kingdom will remember you! General of the Nation: Princess, what’s so good about that sickly weakling? Your eyes are about to fall out! Good brother, go catch that man for me... Ahem, take him to the imperial prison! [The Prince Consort] The emperor-father stroked his beard as he watched his daughter appraising treasures across from him. “Well, my Yu’er is one of a kind, a fairy with no equal on earth or in heaven. I wonder what sort of prince consort could possibly be worthy of her.” Father, don’t worry. Isn’t a prince consort just a horse? The emperor-father: ?!