A Refined, Brooding Mad Dog vs. A Cool, Gorgeous, Checked-Out Agent
Alternate setting, reborn from the womb, sweet romance, redemption, obsessive love.
Lin Xianyue is a peerless beauty and was a top agent in her previous life. Reborn as the neglected second legitimate daughter of the Grand Tutor's household, she finds studying medicine boring, establishes the Yueying Pavilion on a whim, and opens a bank because she has money to burn.
Her lifelong wish: marry a young general and keep lying flat like a salted fish.
Until the night she saves Crown Prince Xiao Chengjin.
She goes along with the mistake, hoping to make her elder sister's dream of becoming Crown Princess come true.
But before long, he climbs through her window into her bedroom. "I owe you my life. I'll repay you with myself."
Crown Prince Xiao Chengjin appears elegant and impeccable, enjoying the emperor's favor.
But no one knows that he's taken blades meant for the Third Prince for twenty years and has been poisoned for twelve.
In public, he's the court's refined and courteous Crown Prince, graceful as an immortal.
In private, he's a brooding, obsessive mad dog who climbs over her wall and into her bed every night.
"Why are you hiding? Dare to swear you weren't the one who saved me?"
She takes one step back, and he advances a hundred.
She coolly tells him, "Your Highness, please behave with restraint." He leans close to her ear anyway, his breath burning hot. "Restraint? Why didn't you say that when you were tearing my clothes off?"
Lin Xianyue: She should never have saved him!
"Xiao Chengjin, what do you want?!"
He kisses the corner of her mouth, his voice tender and crazed. "I want to marry you. I want to open my eyes every day and see you first. I want to keep you locked up in the Eastern Palace, where no one else can see you."
Only later does Lin Xianyue realize... his intrusion into her room that night was no accident.
He had been coming for her from the very beginning.
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