Climbing the Golden Branch

Who says childhood sweethearts can't beat newcomers?

My childhood sweetheart is crazy and greedy!

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[A stunningly beautiful and adorable fake princess VS a cunning and obsessive true powerful minister]

The mother was incredibly beautiful, with a face like a fairy, and was sent by her father to curry favor with the powerful and wealthy.

At only six years old, Wang Heng, who perfectly inherited her mother's beauty, could only think of one way to save herself: to eat herself into a ball.

Wang Heng: If you're chubby, you probably won't be considered a "femme fatale," right?

Lou Yu: The chubby girl next door is fair-skinned, round, and chubby, so delicious... oops, no, I mean so adorable.

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Everyone around me is a "protagonist" with a story:

A female billionaire who conquers the world with her culinary skills after traveling through rural areas;

A favored concubine whose favor is acknowledged by history;

She dropped the ball and ran away, eventually becoming a concubine of a noblewoman;

A poor scholar rises to the top of the imperial examination and becomes a powerful official of the first rank.

Wang Heng: ...These spectacular, dazzling lives have nothing to do with me. We're just ordinary people, plain and normal. Right, Ayu?!

Lou Yu, who had silently sheathed his fangs and claws and whose inner self was utterly black, nodded without any guilt: Yes! Ah Heng is right!

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The female lead is beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. She is chubby and cute as a cub, and grows up to be stunningly beautiful and breathtaking.

The male protagonist appears gentle and refined, but in reality he is mad and sinister, a quintessential cunning and powerful minister.