Stubborn beauty × sweet-talking, scheming madman
Chosen one day, she went from a courtesan in the hidden palace to “Zheng Fengyan,” a secondary consort to the Crown Prince. At first, she planned to find her birth father, save her sisters, reclaim her household registration, and then disappear.
She never expected the Eastern Palace to use her, a fake younger sister-in-law, to deploy seduction tactics and ruin the reputation of Prince Yu, Wei Chuheng, who was known as a virtuous prince.
On her wedding night, she was pushed into a side hall. A man in a thin robe sat on the bed, his features gentle and his drunken eyes smiling. His handsome face radiated warmth, like a bodhisattva in spring.
He warmly called her “little imperial sister-in-law.” She stood there, stunned and afraid to answer.
He smiled. “We must observe proper etiquette.”
With appearances bound to invite suspicion, she was so frightened she climbed out the window and fled!
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After his biological elder brother, the former Crown Prince, died unexpectedly, Wei Chuheng had never been able to let it go. Without realizing it, he began to live as his brother had: hiding his edge behind a gentle, courteous manner.
Though he knew the woman was deliberately getting close to him as part of the Eastern Palace’s scheme, he let her carry on, hoping to uncover the truth about what had happened all those years ago.
When the Crown Prince suddenly dismissed his consort, Wei Chuheng took another look at his “little imperial sister-in-law.” She was beautiful and bright-spirited, a rare kind of woman. She was especially captivating when her eyes grew misty and she didn’t know how to catch her breath.
He wanted to be with her openly and honorably, but she resisted and avoided him, laughing and chatting with the handsome young top scorer in the imperial examinations instead.
Consumed by jealousy, he couldn’t help shedding his gentle facade and using every means at his disposal to keep her by his side.
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She had misjudged him. He wasn’t a refined gentleman who knew his manners, but a shameless brute who could never get enough...
Wei Chuheng gently smoothed the furrow in her brow and laughed. “You were just as reluctant when you were the one who went after me.”
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① The heroine knows when to bend and when to stand firm; the hero gradually reveals his true nature.
② The heroine and the Crown Prince never have any real relationship. She will regain her freedom, and her romance with the hero begins only after she has ended her ties with the Crown Prince.
③ One-on-one romance, both leads are inexperienced, happy ending, fictional setting.
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