After the Deposed Crown Prince Takes the Throne, He Coaxes Me to Take My Medicine Every Day

[A fallen crown prince, wary and scheming at every turn × a patient, clever, frail yet resilient daughter of a disgraced military family]

[Angst for the body, not the heart! The heroine's health will continue to deteriorate! If that bothers you, please don't read!]

Three years ago, the Xie family was falsely accused of colluding with the enemy. Not a single court official dared speak up for them. Only Crown Prince Feng Chengyan questioned the military provisions ledger in open court, suspecting it had been falsified.

The Xie family fell, her father and brothers disappeared, and Xie Hengyue became the lowest-ranking palace maid in the Yeting Palace.

Three years later, the crown prince was deposed and confined deep within the palace...

Xie Hengyue volunteered to serve him in the dilapidated, freezing Western Palace.

With no charcoal to warm him in the depths of winter, she took apart her own quilt to keep him warm;

when his meals were cut, she saved her only bowl of porridge for him;

while searching for medicinal herbs on his behalf, she was beaten until she was covered in blood.

When the Third Prince humiliated Feng Chengyan in public, she took fifty strokes in his place. She lay unconscious for days and nearly never woke again.

Everyone thought the deposed crown prince had no hope of rising again,

but no one expected Feng Chengyan to fight his way back into court and ascend the throne.

With red-rimmed eyes, he promised Xie Hengyue, “For the rest of my life, you alone will receive all my favor.”

Later, everyone in the palace knew that the new emperor cherished one frail, virtuous consort above all others.

If she skipped even one dose of medicine, he would set aside his memorials and coax her himself;

if she so much as coughed, he would lie awake all night.

But just as Xie Hengyue became pregnant with the imperial heir, a deadly plot from the court and the harem quietly drew near once more...