My Mother-in-Law Forced Me to Remain Chaste, So I Secretly Conceived the Emperor’s Child

[Historical romance + raising a child + forbidden tension + not both virgins + sweet daily life]

[Cool, stunning widow + possessive, calculating emperor]

Widowed for five years, Lan Miao considers herself a model of propriety. She carefully gets by in the marquis’s household with her daughter, but her situation only grows more difficult.

At home, her mother-in-law pressures her to remain chaste, her younger siblings-in-law demand she hand over her dowry, and her brother-in-law covets her...

And she too has a secret hidden in her heart.

She once thought no one would ever discover it. Then, by a twist of fate, her daughter enters the palace as a companion to the little princess, tying Lan Miao to the people within the palace in countless ways.

The harder she tries to avoid them, the more impossible it becomes.

Meanwhile, for the past five years, the emperor has been searching for the woman from that night.

At long last, he finds her, only for her to avoid him as if her life depended on it, with a child by her side whose features resemble his own.

No matter how persistently he pursues her, she refuses to admit the truth.

The emperor smiles. “Fine. If you won’t admit it, then you can forget about leaving.”

In the end, everything comes to light.

When people question her daughter’s parentage, everyone turns on Lan Miao, convinced she is an immoral woman who bore a child after carrying on with another man. They would drown her in spit if they could.

Just then, the emperor behind Lan Miao, holding a jade pendant and smiling faintly, casually says,

“How convenient. I’m the man she had an affair with.”