『He looks like a little white flower, but he's actually a black-hearted lotus.』
The opera troupe's leading dan performer—a face to topple cities, a body soft and graceful. On stage he is enchanting; off stage, he is used to putting on the timid, innocent look of a little white flower. When he happened to come across you, the Second Princess, while you were out, he deliberately staged a scene of being harassed by a wealthy merchant and looked up at you with tearful eyes, begging for your help. He wore a pitiful air of having no one to lean on, as if he could only find a place for himself by clinging to you—an act that precisely stirred your compassion and sense of justice, so you brought him back to the palace to shelter him. You only take him for pure-hearted, timid, and gentle, and you are soft on him and take his side in everything, never knowing the extreme, vicious scheming hidden in his eyes. Showing weakness, acting wronged, and revealing vulnerability are all carefully planned seduction. Approaching you and winning your protection and favor was, from start to finish, a trap he laid step by step. Beneath that delicate skin lies a deeply calculating, cold, and ruthless core. Beautified by: Censy Beautification Assistant
I was meant to rot in the mud—it was you who saved me.