The Possessive Crown Prince's Darling

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[Note: Both leads are virgins. The beautiful, tragic male second lead takes the top spot, and the ex-husband is ground to dust and ashes.]

Mu Shiyi, the legitimate daughter of General Xuanwei, has skin like jade, a beauty that could topple kingdoms, and is hailed as the most radiant peony in the Great Yan Kingdom.

At her coming-of-age ceremony, one breathtaking glance was enough to make countless young gentlemen fall for her.

She later married Fang Yanru, heir to the Duke of Fuguo, as his wife.

In three years of marriage, Fang Yanru never once set foot in her room.

Instead, he brought a woman home from outside the estate, claiming she was the orphaned daughter of a classmate and that he was taking her in.

Mu Shiyi watched coldly, casually took out the divorce papers she'd prepared before the wedding, and tossed them to him.

"Either we divorce, or you die."

"Choose."

Fang Yanru found it absurd. "After divorcing me, do you think any young man from an aristocratic family would still take you as his primary wife?"

Years later, at the Lantern Festival palace banquet, Fang Yanru, now the Duke of Fuguo, kneels before the steps and looks up at his former wife. She sits at the highest place in the golden hall, wearing the empress's phoenix crown and more beautiful than words can describe.

The emperor, revered by all, holds her dear and treats her as a precious treasure.

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When Mu Shiyi returned to her family after the divorce, everyone pitied her, thinking she would have to hide away in the inner chambers for the rest of her life, wasting away in obscurity until death.

Who could have guessed that the chancellor's only son would send her a letter, the Duke of Zhen's eldest grandson would break his leg for her, a prince's heir would chase after her calling her sister-in-law, and the Grand Princess would go out of her way to arrange a match for her?

Even the Crown Prince Hua Heyu, who shunned women and had a face so refined and ethereal that no one in the mortal world could match him, dragged his sickly body through a snowy winter night and knelt before the Hall of Supreme Harmony for three days and three nights, coughing up blood, just to marry Mu Shiyi.

No one knew that Hua Heyu had kept a white moonlight in his heart. He had thought he would never obtain her and would carry that love to his grave, never imagining that fate would eventually show him favor.

Little Scene 1:

Ten years ago, after the empress died suddenly, Hua Heyu was sent to the frontier battlefield. There, he was ambushed by evildoers and poisoned, falling from the clouds into the dust.

In his daze, a little girl took his hand and said in a childish voice, "I overheard Father say that only if you survive will the border generals be spared execution. So I secretly prayed to the Bodhisattva and asked to split my life in half with you."

"Your Highness, you have to live to a hundred!"

*Notes:

*An imagined historical setting, lots of original worldbuilding, mutual healing, one-on-one, happy ending, both leads are virgins

*The beautiful, tragic male second lead takes the top spot, while the scumbag man is ground to dust and ashes

*The possessive Crown Prince is restrained and patient early on, then becomes fiercely possessive later

*Please be civil while reading. No insults or picking fights.

*Blurb dated 2021.10.16, Weibo: @Lu Shiming

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