[One-on-One, Both Leads Are Chaste] [Pure Love] [Soulmates] [Honest, Down-to-Earth Heroine] [Possessive Pursuit] [Attracted to Each Other Physically and Emotionally]
In the eyes of outsiders, Xie Suiying is one of the luckiest women in Shengjing.
She is mute and comes from an ordinary family, yet her beauty earned her a high-status marriage into a duke's household, where the heir cherishes her and the couple are deeply in love.
The only pity is that she has not borne her husband's family a child in three years.
Only Xie Suiying knows that it is not her who is barren. Her husband has an old ailment.
They signed a divorce agreement long ago. In their three years of marriage, they never shared a bed.
After her husband "died," Xie Suiying became a widow.
She is honest and dutiful, and has a younger sister who is a burden to support. Faced with her in-laws' mockery and humiliation, she yields at every turn.
Until one day, while visiting a temple to light an eternal lamp for her late husband, she wanders into a cold pool and kisses the aloof Crown Prince, who has taken Buddhist vows.
Xie Suiying is terrified and trembling with trepidation, yet the other party still clings to her and demands a place in her life.
And so he clings to her, year after year.
Crown Prince Qin Wangchuan is the only son of the emperor and empress. He is mad, unruly, wanton, and ruthless, an eccentric unlike anyone else under heaven.
Left with a chronic illness after being wounded on the battlefield, he was forced to practice at a Buddhist temple, seeking nothing but a pure and desire-free heart.
When his first kiss is stolen, Qin Wangchuan falls in love at first sight, declares himself her partner without her consent, and pledges his life to the woman he loves.
After three years, the Crown Prince returns to the palace.
The emperor is attacked, and Qin Wangchuan takes an arrow meant for his father. Poisoned and left with amnesia, he wakes to find that the world has turned upside down.
Damn it! How did his Crown Princess become someone else's widow?
Faced with a prince who remembers nothing but keeps calling her his Crown Princess, the entire court is beside itself.
Is he putting on an act?
There isn't even a Crown Princess! So who on earth is she?