num_pages: 128
description: Once upon a time, an ugly duckling fell in love with a princess…We started off as friends. I should have been content with just that, but I wanted so much more. She was everything I wanted and everything I couldn’t touch…Until one night, I did. For a few brief hours, I knew what it was like to love. And the next morning, I learned what it was like to have my heart broken.Ugly ducklings don’t get happily ever afters, so I decided to become a swan.They call me the ice queen, but I wasn’t born this way. I spent years working to become a perfect feminine beauty. Many women have tried to claim me, but none have thawed my frozen heart. Then, a billionaire asks for my hand in marriage—she wants needs a wife, and the only thing I love is money.There’s just one problem: When we attend the midnight ball to make our engagement public, she is there.My one regret.My only mistake.My first love.I can’t go through the pain of loving her again.But now that I’ve seen her, I know that can’t live without her.
language: English
title: Royal Ugly Duckling