A Beauty's Scheme: He Spent Fifteen Years Trying to Win Her Back

Historical romance #two male leads (no love triangle!) #sweet and angsty #the heroine isn’t naive

Lu Wan, daughter of the Vice Minister of Personnel, is beautiful and clever. She seems gentle as water, but in truth, she keeps careful score of every slight.

One spring outing, she smiled beneath a tree as she admired the flowers, startling Lin Gan, the young heir to the Duke of Lin’s house, who had been napping in its branches.

That mischievous boy became her loyal shadow from then on. When disaster struck her family, he even used their betrothal as a shield to protect her.

Prince Jing, Xue Mingcheng, had once crossed paths with her carriage and fallen for her at a palace banquet, but when she needed him most, he shut his doors to her.

Ten years later, Lin Gan died unexpectedly, and Xue Mingcheng finally saw his chance.

But Lu Wan stroked her husband’s sword and smiled. “Does Your Highness think I’m still the Lu family girl who could be bullied by anyone?”

He gazed at the child behind her, who looked just like Lin Gan, and suddenly understood: this reckoning was only beginning, after half a lifetime of suffering.