I Took the Enemy Crown Prince by Force, Then Fled with His Child

Reverse coercive romance + the groveling ex + rekindled love + melodrama

Zhu Xing is an unloved princess of the Southern Qi imperial family. Her parentage is unclear, and she has an unpleasant personality. Now that she's old enough to be engaged, she still hasn't found a suitable husband. Her older brother is growing anxious. They can't keep dragging this out.

Then Crown Prince Gu Zhan and Fifth Prince Gu Heng of Northern Liang arrive in Southern Qi to escort a bride, and Zhu Xing sets her sights on the fifth prince.

She wants to marry him, so she resorts to a despicable trick and drugs him. But something goes wrong. After one wild night, Zhu Xing discovers that the man beneath her is none other than Crown Prince Gu Zhan.

"Zhu Xing, what a clever scheme." His icy gaze makes her shiver. She can see deep hatred in the eyes of the arrogant crown prince.

But the drug is laced with a love spell, and the only way to break it is for the two of them to share a bed for ten days.

Even if he hates her, it has to be ten days.

Gu Zhan is high above the world and never sets foot among ordinary people. Without this despicable trick, how could he ever have anything to do with her?

Zhu Xing accepts reality. She was the one at fault, after all. She can leave once the ten days are over.

After those ten absurd days, Zhu Xing leaves behind only a note. The room is empty.

Gu Zhan clutches the letter, his eyes unreadable.

**

They meet again four years later.

At the time, Zhu Xing is preparing to marry, with her daughter by her side.

Her heart is full of joy. At last, life is getting better. But Gu Zhan, whom she should never have seen again, rides up on horseback. Seeing the fear in her eyes, he smiles. "I have come to congratulate you on your wedding, Miss."

Zhu Xing reassures herself that she made her position clear back then. Even if things are awkward now, someone as arrogant as Gu Zhan would never do anything to her again.

And just as Zhu Xing expects, that day Gu Zhan quietly drinks at the wedding and says nothing more.

Until that night, beneath the moonlight, Zhu Xing sees the birthmark on the man's chest. She is stunned. The Crown Prince of Northern Liang has the same birthmark.

He pulls her close from behind, breathing against her ear. "My lady, why have you stopped calling me your husband? I rather liked it."

Reader's guide:

Both leads are sexually inexperienced; one-on-one; happy ending

Less plot, more clingy, sugary-sweet romance. The story begins with a forced relationship

***The following is a blurb for a forthcoming novel

Stealing My Brother's Wife

A master comes to the Shen family and says that the younger Shen daughter, Shen Ning, is a perfect match for Chu Shishen of the capital.

Shen Ning hears this from behind a screen. She met Chu Shishen once as a child and fell for him then, so she's more than willing to marry him.

That peerless gentleman, renowned for his beauty, is going to be her husband.

Her husband is so good to her. Not only has he agreed to marry a girl from a humble household like her, he has traveled a great distance to fetch his bride.

It's just that he's... rather vigorous in bed... He leaves her feeling like her waist is about to fall apart.

"My lady," Chu Shishen coaxes her, "you're going to be my wife sooner or later anyway. What difference does it make whether we bow to Heaven and Earth?"

Looking at him, she feels he's different from when they were children. The grown-up Chu Shishen is even more defiant.

Yan Ruochen and Chu Shishen are twins. Chu Shishen was raised by the Chu clan, while Yan Ruochen was raised by a eunuch.

Yan Ruochen is sent on a mission and happens upon a bridal sedan chair. His subordinate tells him the woman inside is to marry the eldest son of the Chu family.

"She's marrying my brother?" He smiles. "So she's my sister-in-law?"

Yan Ruochen lifts the sedan curtain and reaches out a hand. "My lady, I'm Chu Shishen."

After returning to the capital, Shen Ning feels her husband no longer treats her as he used to. By day, he is polite but distant, cold and aloof, like a completely different person from the husband she knew before they came back to the capital.

But at night, he goes back to his old ways.

Until the day she meets someone. Her maid tells her that this is Chu Shishen's twin brother, Yan Ruochen.

He leans against the doorframe and smiles. "Sister-in... my lady."

"I hear your birth charts are a perfect match with my brother's. I wonder if yours would match mine, too."

Both leads are sexually inexperienced; happy ending

Theme: Hardship cannot break me