After Accidentally Seducing the Crown Prince

Crown Prince Zhao Jingyin thought that the court lady Ying Suo had feelings for him.

She would sneak glances at him and deliberately stand a little closer.

Most of all, she would secretly make hand signs he couldn't understand.

He hired a sign language tutor and learned that she was declaring her love for him.

She was gentle and composed, and handled matters with care. Though mute, she kept all his personal affairs in perfect order.

He thought she was deluded, but at least she knew her place.

That was until he was accidentally drugged with an aphrodisiac and saw her bright eyes gazing at him with concern.

He thought that giving her what she wanted might not be so bad.

*

As they spent more time together, he fell harder for her.

When the imperial decree arranging his marriage arrived, he resolved to defy his mother. But the first news he received was that Ying Suo had died.

Heartbroken and remorseful, he blamed himself for not confessing his feelings and driving her to despair and death.

With his heart turned to ashes, he was about to follow her, when his younger brother rushed to the Eastern Palace and stopped him. "Wake up, Imperial Brother! She fooled you!"

*

Shang Yingsuo had relied on her older sister since childhood, but her sister died less than two years after being selected as a court lady.

She endured hardship and bided her time, rising step by step from servant girl to the crown prince's personal court lady while secretly investigating her sister's death.

She always maintained proper boundaries with the crown prince, until she found him suffering from the effects of an aphrodisiac.

The jade-like gentleman, his robes half undone, gazed at her with deep eyes and took the initiative to hook a finger around hers.

Watching tea trickle down his jaw and over the red mole on his Adam's apple... she really couldn't resist.

After Yingsuo woke up, she deeply regretted it. The crown prince, meanwhile, kept a cold face and told her not to overstep, yet seemed eager to announce to the entire Eastern Palace that they'd been intimate.

His conspicuous affection for her left her frazzled. Just like before, she secretly cursed him in sign language, but he caught her fingertips and told her to behave and stop teasing him.

Yingsuo: ?

She had too many secrets, and everything from the moment they met had been a lie.

The closer they grew, the more uneasy she felt. At last, after avenging her family, she heard that he was going to welcome his crown princess.

Her heart ached with a dull bitterness, but she also felt relieved. She left a letter behind, severed ties with the past, and left the capital for good.

*

A few months later, in a remote border town.

Zhao Jingyin traveled over mountains and rivers to find her, only to see the woman who had always been gentle stroking her visibly pregnant belly as she drove a hairpin straight into a would-be rapist's neck. Her voice was wild and brazen, unlike anything he'd ever heard: "When I was killing people, you were still a bundle of nerves in your father's belly!"

Pain and hatred flickered in his eyes at the betrayal, and he couldn't stop himself from laughing coldly in fury.

"Is life and death something you can joke about?"

"You're quite something, aren't you? You've even had a child with some other man?"

*

‖Wait, which bastard said she'd killed herself? I nearly died with her...‖

‖A mute who curses like a sailor vs. a hopeless romantic‖

[Reading Guide]

1. One-on-one romance, both leads are each other's only partners.

2. Mostly daily life in the Eastern Palace. The heroine's true identity is revealed later.

3. I saw a video where waving your hand with your thumb and forefinger making a big six sign means you're insulting someone. Someone in the comments said to do it to your boss, and if the boss asks, just say you're praising him with a "666."

4. The blurb will be revised on January 16, 2026, but the core premise will stay the same.

Theme: Be honest and trustworthy, and keep a low profile