The Demonically Handsome Prince's Special Favor

Everyone says Shen Qingci, the legitimate daughter of the Duke of Zhenguo, was born under an ill-starred fate, bringing misfortune to her family. Abandoned in a remote mountain convent at birth, she was left to fend for herself.

Two years ago, drugged and feverish on a rainy night in the convent, she spent one night with a stranger. His whispered words, “I want to go inside,” became a secret etched into her very bones.

When she returned to the capital, she was chosen as the Fifth Prince’s bride, meant to bring him good fortune. To everyone, she was a despised pawn, cast aside by her family.

At the Princess Royal’s spring banquet, she came face-to-face with the mysterious man from that fateful night. He was Xiao Jue, the Regent, a man with power over the entire court, ruthless and cold-blooded, who had kept his distance from women at the age of twenty-two.

He pretended not to know her and watched coldly as the noblewomen present mocked her low birth and lack of refinement.

She appeared gentle and compliant, but remained clear-eyed and resolute within. She swore to sever their ties and never become entangled with him again.

But later...

When he saw her on the verge of marrying into the Eastern Palace, madness began to stir in his eyes. With power in his grasp, he pursued her at every turn.

Everyone knew the Regent despised women and had no heart, but no one knew that for two years he had loved the young woman from that night in the convent, his longing for her eating away at him to the bone.

Once, he pretended not to recognize her and let her suffer every indignity. Now he would turn the court upside down and trade the realm itself just to make her look back at him.