When the Star-Picking Tower went up in flames, Shen Yuan, a princess of the former dynasty, faked her death and escaped. Taking the name A Yuan, she had nowhere else to turn and entered the Marquis of Zhenbei's residence as a concubine.
Before entering the residence, someone drugged her. She woke up after a night of confusion with no one beside her. Believing a villain had violated her, she hid the truth in tears. Not long after, she discovered she was pregnant.
She gritted her teeth and gave birth to Yu Ge'er, raising him in the western courtyard. Everyone in the residence called him a bastard, and she accepted it.
Marquis Xie Yan was gentle in public and obsessive in private. The concubines in his household were all for show, yet he came to her room every night, gripping her wrist, pinning her waist, and undressing her with his gaze inch by inch.
Three years later, she became pregnant again. The father was the same man.
She had recognized who he was long ago. But she didn't dare ask or acknowledge it.
Yu Ge'er called him Father. He neither answered nor denied it.
It wasn't until someone pointed at her and cursed her for “bringing a bastard to climb the social ladder” that he dragged the person out in full view of everyone. Then he pulled her into his arms and murmured in her ear, “A Yuan, Yu Ge'er is mine. And so are you.”
A princess of the former dynasty fakes her death and hides / A long-planned scheme / An obsessive marquis / A naive, beautiful concubine / Hiding while pregnant / Angst early on / Devoted love later / Both sexually inexperienced / Happy ending
