The Sweetheart in the Honey Jar

[The Lovely Beauty in a Honey Jar is complete! Come read it!!!] Lin Zhuozhuo grew up adored and pampered, a lovely beauty who had it all, but when it came to marriage, she made a terrible mistake. The Crown Prince's beloved was her cousin. He married Lin Zhuozhuo only so that, one day, her cousin could marry him as a concubine with all due propriety. The Crown Prince was deeply devoted to his love. Three years later, he finally used Lin Zhuozhuo's infertility as an excuse to happily take her cousin as a concubine. From then on, they were inseparable, while Lin Zhuozhuo became the jealous, vicious Crown Princess who kept sabotaging her cousin. When Lin Zhuozhuo opened her eyes, she had returned to the time before her marriage. At a banquet, she brought people to witness the Crown Prince and her cousin in a compromising scene behind a rockery. Then she rushed to her imperial uncle, the emperor, and wept, insisting that she break off the engagement. The Crown Prince was furious and humiliated, but had no choice but to end the engagement. Afterward, he watched coldly, wondering who Lin Zhuozhuo could possibly marry! But he never expected that Lin Zhuozhuo would turn around and get involved with the rakish Fourth Prince, a wastrel with nothing but a handsome face. The Crown Prince laughed himself silly. Was she marrying his useless brother on purpose to get back at him for spurning her love? The Fourth Prince chuckled and rubbed her earlobe. "Are you really willing to be with me? Or are you just acting out of spite? Aren't you afraid you'll live in poverty after marrying me?" Lin Zhuozhuo didn't care about his teasing. "What, don't you trust my taste in men?" The Fourth Prince laughed. Oh, I almost forgot to mention: in her previous life, the Fourth Prince took down the Crown Prince and became emperor. Content warnings: 1. The leads have only been with each other in both their lives. It's a one-on-one romance, and they're both chaste. 2. Catching them in the act won't work the first time; there will be twists and turns. 3. While the groundwork is being laid for catching them, the leads' romance will unfold gradually, at an unhurried pace. If you only want to get to the catching-them-in-the-act scenes, this may not be for you. The Pretty Beauty in a Honey Jar by Han Muzhi (complete, come read it!) Reborn at sixteen, Zhao Yuzhu clings to her poor fiancé, who is about to break off their engagement, to escape the lecherous Crown Prince. She knows Xue Yao is powerful enough to protect her. In the future, he will become Prince Jin, a man of immense influence, and slaughter the Crown Prince's faction until the bodies are piled high. She also knows that one day Xue Yao will fall for his cousin, and no one will be able to change his mind. So she won't compete for his heart. As long as Xue Yao protects her from the Crown Prince's clutches, she's willing to strike a deal and sign a one-year marriage contract... One year later. She runs into Xue Yao on the street, pinning a flower in his cousin's hair. Zhao Yuzhu smiles, then hands him the document to end their engagement and decisively announces that she's breaking it off. Xue Yao's gentle smile instantly freezes. His raven-feather lashes slowly rise as he looks at her askance. "You used me to defeat the Crown Prince, then crossed the river and tore down the bridge?" Zhao Yuzhu smiles and reminds him, "The contract was only for a year. It doesn't renew." Xue Yao stares at her darkly for a long time. "Go ahead. Try it." Try it? Gladly. Two days later, the woman unilaterally announces the end of their engagement, and the news spreads through the Northwest like wildfire. Half a month later, on the night Xue Yao is about to leave the Northwest, Xue Yao grabs the girl's chin beside the bed curtains, his smile icy. "Dare to drink an abortion potion and kill my child, and see what happens!" The girl bites her lip hard. "If there's a child, I'll marry you right away! If there isn't, I'll marry you later." Xue Yao picks up the clothes on the floor and storms out. From behind the bed curtains, the girl watches him leave, biting her lip in confusion. Doesn't he like his cousin? P.S. 1: The male lead has never liked his cousin. Pinning a flower in his coming-of-age cousin's hair is an unusual custom in his mother's clan, and the female lead misunderstood. 2: The male lead loves only the female lead. He falls for her first, and she falls for him later. After He Ascended the Throne, I Was Reborn - Next Book The young princess is deeply cherished by Emperor Longde. From birth, she is betrothed to the Crown Prince, but at sixteen, she is drugged and forced to marry the Fourth Prince, who is shunned by the imperial clan. The proud young princess weeps in misery. Especially when she learns that the Fourth Prince was also forced to marry her, and that he already has a beloved in his heart: her archenemy, her elder half-sister. What hope is there for a whole life spent married to such a man? One night, she dreams that the Crown Prince dies a violent death, and the Second Prince also meets an untimely end. The Fourth Prince, the son of a disgraced woman who grew up in the cold palace eating scraps, instead turns the tables and rises to the top. The half-sister she despises enters the palace in triumph and becomes a favored consort. And the young princess... Clutching her chest and struggling to breathe, she wakes from the nightmare and gasps for air at the bedside. It is bitterly cold, and the Fourth Prince is sleeping on the freezing floor beneath the bed because she punished him. After steadying herself, she picks up the warm, thick quilt from the bed to cover the Fourth Prince and shakily climbs down. The light-sleeping Fourth Prince suddenly opens his eyes. "What are you doing?" The young princess's hand trembles, and the quilt falls right onto the man's face. "I'm... I'm too hot. It's unbearable." Her face flushed, the young girl stands barefoot on the icy floor, panicking so much that she stammers. The Fourth Prince gives her a strange look, then reluctantly gets up and searches the cabinet for a thin quilt to replace hers. He's used to her putting him through all sorts of nonsense. That night, the Fourth Prince stays warm wrapped in the thick quilt she'd rejected. But half asleep, he can clearly tell that the young princess is freezing beneath the thin quilt. The Alluring Little Beauty - Coming Soon Su Yaoyao, the young lady of the Marquis's household, has skin as smooth as ice and jade. She's a once-in-a-century beauty, yet when she comes of age, no one seeks her hand in marriage. Not a single matchmaker comes to the door. That's because, like her mother, she has a seductive face, a bewitching figure, and a coy way of speaking. Back in the day, her mother bewitched her elder brother-in-law and younger brother-in-law into making mistakes, and the men in the family have never made peace since. Which prominent family with several sons would dare take her as a daughter-in-law? As the rumors mocking her for being unable to find a husband grow more and more rampant, everyone waits for Su Yaoyao to die alone. Then, one day, an imperial decree is suddenly issued, and everyone is stunned: the Crown Prince has taken a liking to Su Yaoyao and intends to marry her as his Crown Princess! Everyone slaps their foreheads. How could they have forgotten that the Crown Prince is an only child with no brothers? There's no one for her to lead astray. But Su Yaoyao pouts, unhappy. The Crown Prince is far too handsome, a once-in-a-millennium beauty. After they marry, she won't be the prettiest person in the family anymore. No, she won't marry him! The Crown Prince: ... "Sweetheart, I'll dress a little uglier from now on, and then you'll still be the prettiest in the family. How about it?" After the Crown Prince Took His Beloved, I Was Reborn - Coming Soon Shi Feixuan was born noble, the little niece whom Emperor Longde treasured in the palm of his hand. She and the Crown Prince grew up together as childhood sweethearts. Everyone knew she was his future Crown Princess, and her life seemed destined to be filled with happiness. Until, a few days before the engagement banquet, she caught the Crown Prince tenderly comforting her sobbing half-sister behind a rockery. Her father and her stepmother urged her not to be petty. "Your half-sister can help you once she's in the palace. Sisters united are invincible." Empress Jiang told her to be magnanimous. "She's only a daughter born to a concubine. At most, she'll be a secondary consort. How could she possibly threaten you? A Crown Princess must be gracious." The Crown Prince didn't think much of it. "The Eastern Palace is huge. Giving her a place there is nothing. You'll always be the Crown Princess." Reborn, Shi Feixuan finally sees things clearly. Her father has long forgotten her deceased mother and only has eyes for that vixen, her stepmother. Empress Jiang dotes on her half-sister to curry favor with her father, who commands a powerful army. And the Crown Prince's beloved was never her in the first place. Shi Feixuan gives a cold laugh, grabs her half-sister, and rushes to her imperial uncle, the emperor, weeping as she resolutely cancels the engagement ceremony. Empress Jiang smiles gently. "Your Majesty, the invitations were sent out long ago. Even the imperial relatives from the Southwest have come to the capital. We can't let them laugh at us, can we? The engagement must go ahead." Shi Feixuan throws herself into her imperial uncle's arms. "Uncle Emperor, we don't have to cancel the engagement banquet, but I want to be engaged to someone else." "Who?" Emperor Longde asks. "The Fourth Prince!" Shi Feixuan looks around and points at the Fourth Prince, who has just entered the main hall. The Fourth Prince stops in his tracks. The Crown Prince's face turns livid. She can be unreasonable up to a point, but how can she pick some random man to marry just to spite him? Unexpectedly, Emperor Longde slowly nods. "Done." At first, the Crown Prince thinks Shi Feixuan is just venting. He can make peace with her later and coax her into changing her mind. But at the engagement banquet a few days later, she is dressed in finery and still ignores him completely. She takes the Fourth Prince's hand and walks straight into the crowded main hall, and only then does the Crown Prince truly panic. Empress Jiang nearly grinds her teeth to dust. The Fourth Prince is the orphan of the late empress. His status is even more exalted than her son's. Now that he has Shi Feixuan's support, Emperor Longde may reconsider who should inherit the throne. Theme: Keep your eyes open, seize opportunities, turn your life around, and never stop striving.