Lost in the Spring Blossoms

Xue Rongjin took her birth sister's place and married into the crowded Prince Zhao's household, becoming the Prince Zhao's heir's second wife.

Her nominal mother-in-law, Princess Consort Zhao, was harsh and exacting, and her sister-in-law was willful. Xue Rongjin had thought life could hardly get worse, but on their wedding night, her new husband received an order transferring him away from the capital. He never returned.

Not long after entering the Prince Zhao household, Xue Rongjin became a widow.

Thrown into a den of wolves, Xue Rongjin wanted only to survive.

Soon, she thought of someone.

Her late husband's younger brother, Prince Zhao's illegitimate son, Prince Yu Pei Zheng, who was also her brother-in-law.

She figured that if she begged him, Pei Zheng would surely let a little widowed sister-in-law like her stay, wouldn't he?

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Xue Rongjin liked quiet places. On entering the household, she chose Mingyue Pavilion in the northwest corner and kept its doors and windows shut all year round. When she had no errands, she never stepped outside the courtyard.

Yet even this secluded courtyard had long been watched by a pair of dark eyes.

Day and night, he lingered nearby, peering in.

Xue Rongjin knew nothing of it.

Pei Zheng, Prince Zhao's second son, was blind and could not see.

On the day of the heir's wedding, when the groom failed to appear, his blind uncle led the bride through the wedding rites and personally escorted her to Mingyue Pavilion.

They had only to consummate the marriage...

Only to consummate the marriage!

Now his elder brother was dead.

And Xue Rongjin had come to plead with him.

His sister-in-law bent at the waist, her long hair pinned high in the married woman's style, with a single strand falling over her shoulder. She looked gentle and demure.

Pei Zheng heard her say softly, "I beg you, once you inherit the heir's title, please grant me a place where I can live in peace."

The man was handsome as the moon, straight as a pine, a disbelieving, tender smile curling his lips.

Pei Zheng replied, "Of course."

Xue Rongjin was surprised by how readily he agreed. When she looked up, she felt as though her gaze met his.

His eyes were covered by a blindfold, and he could not see, yet Xue Rongjin felt an unusually intense gaze fall upon her.

It was the same feeling of unease that rose in her whenever, in the dead of night, she seemed to be watched in her sleep.

But hadn't her brother-in-law been blind for years?

Kind, honest widow sister-in-law X blind, gentle, outwardly mild but inwardly dark younger brother-in-law

Please note:

1. One-on-one romance, both leads are sexually inexperienced.

2. The male lead is blind at first, but will recover later. He seems gentle, but is dark inside.

3. Cover by Shili Changhuan-Banbanban

Theme: Respecting and loving others brings the same in return