Princess Yuyan, the Crown Princess of Baiguang, turned the worn pages of the book with careful fingers, the candlelight flickering across the faded print. She had read it a hundred times before. Perhaps a thousand. But this time—this time she read it not as a girl with her feet tucked into a university library corner, but as a woman with her feet firmly planted inside the pages.
The Villainous Crown Prince.
That had been the title. Cheap digital cover. Blood-red font. One of those clickbait novels you never admitted to reading in public. But she had read it. Cover to cover. And now she was living it.
Zhu Mingyu—Crown Prince of Daiyu, son of the dragon, heir to the empire.
