She eloped with her husband, only to be cornered beneath the city gate by her former husband, the Crown Prince!
[Groveling redemption arc + the male lead and his brother are each other's rivals for the heroine + coercive possession + the heroine is not sexually inexperienced, the hero is]
Carefree young lady vs. sharp-tongued, haughty, deposed prince
A living princess had to return to Chang'an. He coaxed her patiently: "You look like her, and you understand her. No one in the world is better suited to impersonate Li Baoyi."
He didn't just blackmail her. He forced her into his bed and whispered in her ear like a curse: "You're my woman. You must be utterly devoted to me and help me keep this earth-shattering secret."
His fingers could stir up storms, and they could make her world spin.
He never expected that all his careful scheming would send her into another man's arms.
The first grand banquet after her return to Chang'an was the wedding ceremony bestowed upon her by the emperor.
The princess and her consort made a handsome couple, so sickeningly perfect it was hard to look at.
He had her over a barrel and forced her to cut all ties with her husband. But later, she knelt before him and begged desperately: "But I'm already carrying his child."
By then, he had taken up residence in the Eastern Palace. He was no longer the lowly prince he'd once been. His power was immense, and crushing the two of them would be as easy as crushing ants.
He never expected that after she had begged him, after she'd shown him every facet of her beauty, she would pack her things with a cheeky smile on his birthday and elope with her consort, casting him aside like trash. Li Du learned what it meant to be consumed by jealousy, and blocked their way beneath the city walls.
At that moment, she was bouncing hard on the back of the steppe hero's horse when a wave of morning sickness struck.
"Your Highness is now the Crown Prince, and you'll have countless women in the future. Why cling to the two of us? I'm Helan Sheng, an insignificant nobody. All I want is to protect my wife and child!"
He smiled. "There's no reason the child you conceived couldn't bear the surname Li. You stole my wife, so I'll take your child. Isn't that fair?"
He held her tightly in his grasp and pinned her against the bed rail. In this life and every life after, she would never escape him.
Content warning: Love triangle. The heroine loved and slept with both men. The male leads are sexually inexperienced. This isn't realistic fiction, just deliciously melodramatic wish fulfillment.
Theme: Find yourself again
Although I thought this chapter was funny, it was actually really sad.
I don't know why, but I will be very sad when the women around He Lanyue pass away, from her half-way teacher when she first entered Chang'an, to the young lady who later died in the temple, to Li Lingrong, and Baoyi who is struggling on the line of life and death 😭 😭 😭
Give me a good spanking for this big guy
Hey, can Helan and her brother-in-law pack up and run away again?
Everything in one dish is hilarious.
Thank you to heaven, thank you to earth, thank you for your hard work~
I found that He Lanyue and her second brother were like a warm and affectionate novice couple, but when she was with Li Du, they were intolerable 🐶
Isn't he a male cleaner? I skipped a few chapters and found out how he got married [changed]
So exciting! It turns out that Li Du's grandmother and grandfather were both orthopedists (the wrong focus [hugging the thigh])
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