[Sharp-Tongued Softie with a Cold Face and a Cute Side x Pathetic, Jealous, Chattering Puppy]
[Secret Crush | Childhood Friends | Brothers' Love Triangle]
Huai Yue died.
She slipped and fell into the water, meeting a rather unfortunate end.
And even after death, her luck didn't improve.
The emperor's younger brother, the Second Prince, who commanded the imperial armies, knelt on the ground weeping over her corpse for some unknown reason. Then he secretly smuggled her body out of the palace.
The emperor flew into a rage and sent every imperial guard in the palace to retrieve her body.
Everyone in the city cursed her as a seductress who had brought disaster upon the nation, blaming her for driving the emperor and the Second Prince to turn against each other and plunging the realm into turmoil.
She was innocent!
The emperor had loathed her. She had lived in conditions no better than the Cold Palace.
As for the Second Prince, she couldn't even remember what he looked like!
Fortunately, she came back to life.
Huai Yue was reborn at the age of fifteen.
That year, she attended a victory banquet for the man who was then the Second Prince. She accidentally fell into a lotus pond, and someone leaped in to save her. Years later, she learned that her rescuer had been the very Second Prince rumored to have had an affair with her.
The Second Prince was strange, oddly familiar with her from the start. He not only called her by her childhood nickname, but also kept sending her this and that. Stranger still...
[Hehe, I like Little Crescent.]
She could hear his thoughts!!!
?? Wait, what had she just heard?!
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Mu Qingshan, the Second Prince, returned in triumph from the far north at just fifteen. The young general was renowned throughout the land, and everyone admired him. Yet the young general turned away all his visitors and stayed by Huai Yue's side alone.
When Huai Yue spoke with the Crown Prince,
he would trail behind her like a ghost. [You two are so close, huh? Have you talked enough? You still like him, don't you? He treated you so badly, so why do you still like him?]
When Huai Yue was alone with him,
his face was cold and impassive, like an evil spirit, while inside he was utterly lovestruck. [Little Crescent, hehe... You smell so good...]
Much later,
Mu Qingshan found her, his expression solemn.
