[Thanks to the lovely Yichuan Xue for making the cover. Love you!]
When Su Misheng was fifteen, Crown Prince Li Yu was deposed for plotting rebellion and exiled to the remote borderlands of Hexi.
Her father, Su Qizhi, who served as Minister of the Palace and Crown Prince's Tutor, was implicated and demoted before being exiled as well.
Overnight, everything was turned upside down. Su Misheng went from being the envy of all as the future Crown Princess to a commoner.
The Seventh Prince, Prince Qi, looked down at her. His eyes were as dark as a deep, still pool as he gazed at her from above.
"Come with me. I can keep your whole family safe in Hexi."
Su Misheng stared blankly for a moment, then bit her lip and nodded.
The Crown Prince had fallen, and Prince Qi held all the power. She had no choice.
Everyone knew that Prince Qi was proud, aloof, and indifferent, and kept women at a distance. Yet he kept Su Misheng, the daughter of a disgraced official, as his mistress.
It wasn't because he was infatuated with her. He simply hated the Crown Prince and his former tutor, and wanted to humiliate them both through Misheng.
Three years passed in a flash. The case against the former Crown Prince, who had supposedly plotted rebellion, was overturned.
The former Crown Prince and Su Qizhi were summoned back by imperial decree.
Su Qizhi was reinstated and brought his youngest daughter back from Prince Qi's estate.
Prince Qi watched coldly, snapped his bone fan shut, and said indifferently, "Good. I've grown tired of this, too."
Su Misheng left, and Prince Qi continued his carefree life in fine clothes, riding his horse with abandon.
Everyone said that Prince Qi was unattached and cold-hearted.
Only the Prince of Qi's household administrator knew that after the Third Miss of the Su family left, Prince Qi never slept well again...
In his drunken half-sleep, he never stopped murmuring, "Mimi..."
"...Mimi... won't you come back to me?"
Theme: Self-reliance and strength are best
