Your Highness, the Regent Is Fighting with the Emperor for Your Favor Again

Princess Jiang Ning was not of royal blood. Her mother died in childbirth. The late emperor hoped she would die young. Just as she was being driven out of the palace to fend for herself, He Cangming took her back to the Eastern Palace. He became her crown prince brother, the best in the world, with eyes and a heart for her alone. The scandal that Jiang Ning had fallen for He Cangming spread across the capital overnight, and she was sent away from the city to avoid suspicion. Three years later, Jiang Ning defied an imperial decree and returned to the capital, only to find that He Cangming now had concubines by his side. The feelings she kept hidden in her heart could never cross the gulf of social convention. Then Prince Regent He Xuanjing suddenly barged into her life. He stole her shops, ate her leftovers, and even sent his dog to flirt with hers. To keep squatting in the princess’s residence, he set his own regent’s manor on fire. The aloof, unruly prince regent pinned her against a wall three zhang from He Cangming and said, “Your Highness, you wouldn’t want your imperial brother to find out about us, would you?” He could also coax her with dark cunning: “Be with me. Then I’ll outrank your imperial brother by a generation, and he’ll have to call you Auntie when we meet.”