[Sweet on the outside, calculating within + power struggles + regret and pursuit + childbirth and a fight for the throne + marriage first, love later]
[An illegitimate daughter whom anyone can bully vs. a dark, scheming crown prince]
To win a beauty’s smile, the man she married at the age of eighteen without hesitation wiped out her entire clan.
Reborn as an illegitimate daughter in the household of a county deputy magistrate, a low-ranking ninth-grade official in an enemy state, Chi Nianjin had only one goal: revenge.
To maintain the original persona, she helped her scumbag father get promoted. In return, he turned around and sent her off as a concubine to a pervert.
She played along, switched places with her scumbag father’s legitimate second daughter, and married into the Third Prince’s household as a concubine.
She struck a deal with the Third Prince: she would bear him a child and help him become crown prince.
When they stormed the Qianqing Palace in the State of Yan, the scumbag crawled toward her on his knees, step by agonizing step over the thorns. “Nianjin, please forgive me! I’m guilty. I don’t ask you to love me again, only to forgive me!”
Pei Yanqing deliberately tugged his son forward. “Go on, son, call your mother home. The whole family is going to dinner!”
With her revenge complete, Chi Nianjin was about to fake her death and disappear when the Third Prince and their son blocked her way. He pleaded through tears, “My lady, you can take our son and go. Just don’t leave your husband. Stay with me, all right?”
