A Scheming Beauty and Her Devoted, Cold-Hearted Prince

[A seemingly fragile, scheming beauty VS a truly aloof prince who turns ruthless]

[Traditional historical romance + sweet indulgence + no transmigration or rebirth + devoted to each other + one-on-one romance]

With no powerful family to rely on, she needed someone to shelter her from the chaos of the age. So she agreed to the old Princess Consort’s request and married Prince An to carry on his family line.

Through seduction, schemes, and sweet talk, she did everything she could to secure a place in his heart. But on the day she gave birth, she pretended to suffer a difficult delivery and faked her death to escape.

On the day her coffin was sealed and buried, the usually composed, aloof Prince An clutched their swaddled infant son, his eyes bloodshot. He could not believe she was gone from this world forever.

Years later, she was living a peaceful, contented life in a small town south of the Yangtze.

Then a little child who looked remarkably like her suddenly appeared out of nowhere and clung to her. “Mother, I missed you so much!”

As she stood there stunned, a man radiating fury kicked open the door and demanded to know why she had abandoned her husband and child. But at the last moment, all his anger turned to wounded indignation, and he said, “You little liar, I missed you too.”

For more than a thousand nights, he had kept asking himself why he had not been by her side when she suffered her difficult labor, why he had not saved her life. And whenever he looked at the child beside him, who resembled her so closely, he could not bring himself to hate him.

Then one day, when he descended into her tomb to visit her, he found the coffin that should have held his princess empty. Only then did he understand: his princess had not died in childbirth. She had faked her death, deceived him, and deliberately fled.

From that day on, the once-gentle Prince An went mad…