The Soft Princess Cries, The Cold Prince Panics

Everyone believes Zhao Qinglan is just another delicate flower—timid, fragile, easily crushed. They have no idea the tender rose conceals a blade. Betrayed and sold to a lecherous old man, she shatters her chains with a hidden mechanical bracelet. Cornered in a brothel, she leaps into the river and crashes onto the pleasure barge of Prince Regent Qi Jiayu, the empire's most feared man. Before him, she weeps pitifully, all trembling innocence. Behind his back, her sleeve mechanisms silently eliminate her pursuers. The ruthless prince vows to unmask this cunning little schemer—until she reveals…