A Mistaken Flirtation in Spring

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Su Tingmei, the most beautiful woman in Jiangnan, suffers a sudden family disaster and becomes a poor relation dependent on the Marquis of Dingwen's household.

One day, she dreams that she is presented to Prince Su Zhao Chong, a man whose power eclipses the court, and imprisoned in his manor to serve him day and night.

She wakes up in a cold sweat. Determined to change her fate, she decides to make Xie Songtang, the dream man of every noblewoman in the capital, marry her.

She pulls out all the stops, and just when she is about to get her wish, she realizes that this "Xie Songtang" doesn't seem much like the virtuous gentleman everyone describes.

Especially whenever they touch, his eyes look as though he wants to devour her whole...

Prince Su Zhao Chong has spent years fighting on the battlefield. He's cold, ruthless, and decisive, but he has always kept his abnormal desires hidden. More than anything, he hates people who use them to get close to him.

One day, a graceful beauty deliberately stumbles in front of him. He looks down on her, but her collar gapes wide, revealing a collarbone that draws his gaze like a crescent moon...

Later, Zhao Chong is badly wounded. The woman stands by his bed, eyes red, and gives him a good-luck sachet she made by hand, hiding behind her back the hand covered in needle pricks.

He suppresses the desire surging through him and pretends to be indifferent. "Since you've gone to such trouble for me, I'll allow you to enter my manor as a concubine."

But Zhao Chong never expects her to be moved and thank him. Instead, she stares at him with wide eyes, as if he has said something terrifying.

Later, he sees Su Tingmei standing before his cousin Xie Songtang, slipping into his hand a sachet just like the one she gave him.

The devotion in her eyes is no different from the way she looks at Zhao Chong. In a pitiful voice, she says, "Meiniang has long held affection for you, my lord. I was misled by someone else before. I hope Third Young Master will understand how I feel."

The bewitching, flirtatious beauty who captivates everyone versus the regent with skin hunger

Reader advisory:

1. The female lead bought the sachets wholesale. She is a dependent relation, but she has a very high opinion of her own worth. Her innocent flower act is fake.

2. The male lead is a jerk at first, but the female lead trains him like a dog later. Lots of male rivals competing for her.

3. The male lead has issues but is pure in body and soul. The female lead is irresistible to everyone and will get involved with a supporting male character early on.

4. This is neither a strong-female-lead story nor a political intrigue novel. It's a sweet, satisfying romance set in a fictional world, with plenty of authorial liberties.

5. I have plenty of chapters ready, and updates come daily at noon. Please add it to your reading list, and may good fortune be with you.

Blurb written on August 6, 2025, and a screenshot has been saved.

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Plain, beautiful country girl vs. a refined scoundrel of a wicked minister

After his elder brother's early death, Marquis of Jingwu Huo Yanshi wields enormous power at court and devotes himself to his family. He carefully raises his nephew Huo Yun, teaching him both scholarly and military skills and arranging his betrothal to the daughter of his childhood sweetheart, the Cui family.

But then his nephew brings a country girl back to the capital, saying she saved his life. The two of them married in the countryside, and now he intends to wed her properly and bring her into the household.

Huo Yanshi looks at the country girl kneeling beside his nephew. She dresses like a peasant and looks timid and submissive, utterly unlike the noble young ladies of the capital. Her only good points are her voluptuous beauty and her shameless habit of clinging to his nephew every night.

Huo Yanshi will never allow his nephew, the pride and hope of the family, to marry a woman like her.

To bring his nephew to his senses, he pretends to be tender toward the girl and seduces her at every turn, finally driving a wedge between them. But when she finally takes the hint and decides to leave the marquis's household, he suddenly wants to know why such an ordinary country girl could make his nephew, raised in luxury, so utterly besotted that they spent every night together...

Ye Zhen grew up working in the fields. After returning to the capital with her newlywed husband, the grandeur of his powerful family constantly reminds her that she is not worthy of the refined and handsome heir to the marquis's title.

Then she witnesses her husband rekindle his old romance with a noblewoman of the Cui family. At last, she gives up hope, leaves a divorce agreement, and prepares to return to the countryside in Zhongzhou.

Before leaving, she goes to say goodbye to her husband's uncle, Marquis Huo, hoping to thank him in person for looking after her.

Huo Yanshi is wiping down a benevolent-looking Buddha statue. When he turns around, he sees Ye Zhen bending her slender neck, her delicate features full of gentle timidity as she calls him "Uncle."

He remembers passing his nephew's room at night and hearing this country girl use that same voice to call her husband again and again, begging for mercy.

Huo Yanshi's smile remains warm, but he turns the Buddha statue in his hands to face away from them.

That night, Ye Zhen learns what dark and ravenous desires lie beneath the gentlemanly exterior of the uncle she has always looked up to...

At first, Huo Yanshi thinks a taste of a lowborn country girl will be enough.

Later, he decides to keep her around as a tool to spur his nephew to greater heights. He might as well make use of her.

In the end, he hates her coldness and indifference. No matter how he offers her his heart and begs, she refuses to spare him even a glance.

Huo Yun has revered his uncle Huo Yanshi since childhood, respecting him as a father and obeying his every word.

But just as he loses the woman he loves through a scheme and is overwhelmed with regret, his uncle appears before him, holding hands with the woman who was once his wife.

In that moment, he swears to seize the title of Marquis of Jing'an and take her back from his uncle.

Theme: Strive to change your fate