Love Story of Young General and Princess 春心动 by Gu Lezhi 顾了之

A young rebel with aspirations to overthrow the dynasty one day experiences a stirring of romantic feelings. During these turbulent times, Princess Yongying suffers a head injury during a bandit attack and ends up with a scrambled memory, mistakenly believing herself to be the heroine of a certain novel. This wouldn’t be an issue, except she also mistakes her arch-nemesis for her secret lover. Watching her lover return from battle but not come to see her, seemingly forgetting all about her, the once haughty princess angrily lowers herself, grabs a ladder, and sets it against the wall of the general’s residence.

The twin brother dies unjustly at the frontier, and Yuan Ce conceals his brother’s death, impersonating the “miraculously surviving” sibling to return to court and begin settling scores. Unexpectedly, despite gaining the emperor’s trust and evading suspicion from political rivals, he can’t escape the night when a girl climbs over his wall, knocks on his window with a look of grievance—”Brother Ce, you haven’t come to see me in so long, do you no longer like me…?” “… “ No one informed him that they were this kind of mortal enemies.