The Crown Prince's Concubine (Reborn)

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The Great Chu Crown Prince Pei Lan is strict with himself, virtuous and talented, and uniquely handsome among the men of the Chu Dynasty. He is a heaven-blessed talent whom the court officials wholeheartedly support.

But there's one thing wrong with the crown prince: he keeps a mistress.

Others don't know it, but his mistress, Ruan Ling, knows that beneath Pei Lan's upright exterior is a gloomy man whose moods change without warning.

Ruan Ling had no choice but to give herself to him to save her mother's life. But she knows the crown prince doesn't love her. He only enjoys his lofty position.

The crown prince refuses to marry a principal or secondary consort, yet keeps a mistress, stirring up all kinds of rumors. Finally, in the seventh year of Jinghe, the people petitioned against him, and the mistress was condemned to death.

But Ruan Ling was reborn. In her new life, she does everything she can to stay away from the crown prince, but through a twist of fate, she ends up back at the side of that man.

In the back courtyard of the Ruan residence, the man looks down at the trembling beauty before him and smiles. "Afraid of me?"

The young woman looks timid and delicate, her eyes red, tears streaming down her cheeks.

He rubs the corner of her eye with his index finger, his voice low and husky. "You weren't like this in your previous life."

What you think is a second chance at life is actually something he spent his whole life praying for.

P.S. Sweet romance, one-on-one. Pei Lan x Ruan Ling.

A crown prince who wants nothing to do with women but is dragged from his pedestal x a spoiled, delicate mistress.

A groveling romance. The damn crown prince loves this one young woman in both lives. If it's not sweet, come complain to me!

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[Overbearing pursuit] [She runs, he chases] [A powerful man brought low]

A Fu is a young maid in the flower room of the empress's palace, with limpid eyes and a beautiful, delicate face.

She works diligently every day, eagerly looking forward to leaving the palace in a month, when her term of service is over. She dreams of shedding her status as a servant and spending her life with her sweetheart, the heir to the Marquis of Jing'an.

But an accident leads to A Fu spending a passionate night with the crown prince, Pei Shao, and becoming intimate with him.

Fortunately, she'd deliberately turned her face away and lowered her voice that night, so the crown prince doesn't know who she is.

The crown prince despises her low status, but is thoroughly satisfied with her body. He grants her a favor and tells her to think it over and report back to him.

A Fu timidly agrees and flees in a panic. Every day, she lives in fear, using flower juice to darken her face and conceal her looks. She only hopes the whole thing will quietly blow over and the crown prince won't find her.

At last, she makes it through the month without incident. The day she leaves the palace, the weather is clear, and the Marquis of Jing'an's heir has sent a carriage to wait outside the palace gates.

A Fu climbs into the carriage, overjoyed, and throws herself into her sweetheart's arms. But when she looks up, she meets the cool, haughty face of Pei Shao.

Pei Shao casually grabs her slender wrist, intending to repeat the debauchery of that night...

And her sweetheart, the Marquis of Jing'an's heir, is lying on the carriage floor in the compartment!

A Fu looks at him timidly with her almond-shaped eyes. Even as he kisses her until her eyes fill with tears, she still resists. "Your Highness, A Fu... is free now..."

The Wei Dynasty's Crown Prince Pei Shao is poised and noble, born to the imperial family, and arrogant to a fault.

During a premarital trial of the bridal chamber, he slept with a lowborn maid.

He thought that since she'd received his favor, he might as well keep her.

Who could have guessed that, though she was lowborn, she had an unyielding spirit? To his face, she was gentle and obedient, never competing for a title, but when he left the capital to wage war, she schemed to slip away!

Pei Shao has never failed to get what he wants. So he decides to break that proud, snow-white spirit completely.

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Three Years a Widow: Forbidden love, a groveling romance, an elder brother competing with his younger brother for his wife.

Blurb: Shen Nian was born to a merchant family. With her bright eyes and gentle beauty, she became engaged to Wei Chifeng, the youngest legitimate son of the Duke of Zhenguo, thanks to her family's connections.

But when the Shen family suddenly fell from power, Shen Nian's place in the duke's household became precarious as well.

She planned to rely on her husband to clear her family's name, but Wei Chifeng died mysteriously a month after their wedding.

Branded a husband-killer, an ill omen, and a woman with a malign destiny, Shen Nian became a widow living in seclusion.

Three years later, the heir to the Duke of Zhenguo, Wei Yunzhou, returned in triumph. In a secluded courtyard, he came across Shen Nian tending flowers with her maid.

The beauty pouted, every smile and frown more lovely than anything in the world, showing none of the sorrow expected of a woman whose husband had died. Anger stirred in Wei Yunzhou's heart. He crushed the delicate flower bud underfoot. "Your husband is dead, and you still have the nerve to tend flowers?"

Shen Nian looked up and stumbled backward in fright, her slender fingers raised protectively before her. On the verge of tears, she said, "Please, elder brother, let me explain."

Wei Yunzhou looked at his younger brother's pale, timid wife and felt only disgust. He wouldn't hear her out and ordered her to kneel in the family shrine.

Life in the duke's household was already difficult for Shen Nian, and it became even harder after the heir returned. He made her kneel, copy books, and review the accounts.

His need to control her gradually began to cross the boundaries between an elder brother and his younger brother's wife.

Until one night, when she went to deliver the account books and he unexpectedly pulled her into his tent. The familiar scent and position brought back memories, just like the night he left the capital three years earlier.

Memories flooded back, and Shen Nian suddenly remembered that when she first came to the Duke of Zhenguo's household three years ago, it wasn't her husband who had taken her to bed. It had been Master Wei Yunzhou!

At first, Wei Yunzhou hated that she had no feelings for her dead husband. Later, he resented how virtuous a wife she was.

"Nian Nian, I'm the one who shared a marriage bed with you."

"Nian Nian, has he ever kissed you the way I do?"

"Nian Nian, am I not good enough?"

Trapped in that small space, Shen Nian's almond-shaped eyes glistened red. "But, elder brother, you're going to marry someone..."

Sweet romance, completed story. A cold and aloof heir gradually falls, fighting desperately to win her. Plenty of indulgence and good living!

Theme: As long as you hold on to your conviction, no matter how far you travel, you will reach your destination.