Captured by the Enemy Prince After I Escaped

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The Zhao princess had snow-white skin and flowerlike beauty, with a soft, warm charm. Even while held hostage in the State of Qi, people treated her with considerable gentleness.

The sole exception was the second prince of Qi, who kept women at a distance and turned as cold as ice whenever he saw her.

Zhao Wanyu knew the second prince hated her. In the third month of her captivity, she secretly learned that Zhao had conspired with another state. Wanyu and her elder brother had no choice but to fake their deaths and flee Qi.

On the third night after their escape, Wanyu was captured in the wilderness by Qi's second prince.

Zhao Wanyu thought, I'm done for.

But in the darkness, the second prince, a man of heavenly beauty, kept his face cold even as the tips of his ears turned red. "I can give you a chance to live."

Zhao Wanyu froze.

The second prince's gaze fell on Wanyu's porcelain-white face. His Adam's apple bobbed, and he slowly said, "Become my woman."

W-what?

No one knew that from the day he first saw Zhao Wanyu, the second prince, Liu Zheng, had been having a dream. In it, the Zhao princess, her eyes faintly red and her expression shy, hooked a finger into his sash and called him her beloved.

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At first, Liu Zheng thought that perhaps he couldn't stop dreaming of her because he hadn't won her over. Once some time passed, the dreams would naturally fade.

So when they married, he said coldly, "Stay with me for half a year. After that, I'll send you out of Qi."

Half a year later, he stood with his hands behind his back, gazing at the frost outside. After a light cough, he said, "Winter's almost here, and it'll be bitterly cold. Why not wait until the new year to leave?"

When the new year came, Liu Zheng strode toward the inner courtyard with a grim expression. Before he reached the courtyard gate, a maid ran over, looking flustered. "Your Highness, something terrible has happened. The Lady has run away."

Liu Zheng: "..."

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After the eldest daughter of the Jiangnan Chen family is bluntly rejected by an elegant, aloof young nobleman, she forces Aying to seduce him and then abandon him, so he can experience the pain of wanting someone he can't have.

With no other choice, Aying does as the young lady says. But the nobleman seems uninterested in women, so after three months she should be able to return empty-handed and still have something to report.

But three months later, the nobleman falls in love and, with his ears slightly red, tells her he likes her.

Aying is stunned.

The young lady is cruel, the nobleman aloof and dangerous, and Aying is caught between them. So when she accidentally falls into the water, she uses the opportunity to fake her death and run away.

Two months after faking her death, Aying is found by her birth parents. It turns out she is the legitimate daughter of the Marquis of Cheng'en's household, who went missing more than ten years ago.

Aying returns to the capital. Her family is kind and warm, and she reunites with her gentle childhood sweetheart. They plan to marry before long.

Aside from occasionally thinking about the nobleman and feeling a little guilty, she's doing well in every other way.

Until one day at a palace banquet, she feels someone staring at her. Aying looks up and meets a pair of eyes as dark and deep as a pool.

A plump, glossy grape slips from her hand and rolls onto the ground.

The other person gives her a faint smile.

W-why does this man's face look exactly like the nobleman's?

Qi Song was born to a noble family. Refined and handsome, he was admired by countless young ladies despite his frail health.

But it was only while investigating a case in Jiangnan under an assumed identity that he fell for a young lady he met there.

The young lady was lively and optimistic, as full of life as spring. Qi Song, whose heart was desolate and hopeless, fell in love. But shortly after promising to marry her, he tragically drowned.

Until one evening banquet, when he saw the young woman who should have been dead.

The young woman was chatting and laughing with those around her, her face flushed. What's more, she had a devoted sweetheart.

The usually aloof and composed Qi Song grew increasingly unhinged...

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