[Working hard on the backlog!] [Forced Love] [Melodramatic She Runs, He Chases] [The Powerful One Bows His Head]
A Fu is a young maid in the flower house of the empress's palace, with eyes like autumn waters and a lovely, delicate appearance.
She works diligently every day, eagerly counting down to the day she can leave the palace after completing a month of service, shed her status as a servant, and spend her life with her sweetheart, Zhao Yuanting, heir to the Marquis of Jing'an.
But an accident leads A Fu to spend a night of passion with Crown Prince Pei Shao, and they become intimate.
Fortunately, she deliberately turned her face away that night and lowered her voice, so the crown prince doesn't know who she is.
A Fu is terrified every day. She smears flower juice on her face to darken it and hide her beauty, hoping the whole thing will quietly pass and the crown prince won't find her.
But the crown prince seems to have taken an interest in the woman who served him that night and begins searching the palace for her.
With no other choice, A Fu sneaks out of the palace and meets him as a maid who has shared his bed.
Inside the palace, she's an honest, innocent maid from the flower house. Outside it, she's a lowly bedchamber maid who serves the crown prince in secret, weak and easily bullied.
At last, she thinks she's made it through the month without incident. The day she leaves the palace is sunny, and a carriage from the marquis's residence is waiting outside the palace gates to collect her.
Overjoyed, A Fu climbs into the carriage and throws herself into her sweetheart's arms. Blushing, she lets him kiss her, but after a long kiss, when she finally lifts her head, she's staring into a cold, haughty face.
Pei Shao casually grips her slender wrist, intending to repeat that night's indiscretion...
And her sweetheart, the heir to the Marquis of Jing'an, is lying on the floor of the carriage compartment!
A Fu's legs go weak with fear. So he knew all along?!
The girl is kissed until her eyes are swimming with tears, yet she still tries to resist. "Your Highness, you've got the wrong person..."
The man presses his lips to hers and smiles darkly. "Haven't you had enough of this act?"
The Wei Dynasty's crown prince, Pei Shao, is refined and noble, born to the imperial family and haughty beyond measure.
While testing a bed before his wedding, he takes a lowly maid to bed.
He thinks that since she has received his favor, he may as well keep her for himself.
But despite her low status, the girl has a proud and unyielding spirit. To his face, she is sweet, obedient, and never asks for a title, yet she repeatedly seizes every opportunity to run away!
Pei Shao has never been denied anything in his life. If that's the case, then he'll simply break that snowy-white, proud spirit of hers.
When they meet again, the crown prince attends Duke Jing's flower-viewing banquet on behalf of the palace. His little bedchamber maid has changed her makeup and added height to her shoes. Composed and elegant, she's transformed into the duke's legitimate daughter.
From across the pavilion, A Fu puts on a calm face and approaches to pay her respects, bringing her fiance along.
Pei Shao smiles faintly, hiding the darkness in his eyes, and offers his congratulations.
As he turns away, his almost inaudible voice drifts to A Fu on the wind. The girl goes weak in the knees with fright...
"You think you're going to marry him today?"
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"Three Years a Widow": Forbidden romance, chasing the wife to the crematorium, an elder brother and his younger brother fighting over the younger brother's wife.
Blurb: Shen Nian was born into a merchant family. She has bright, beautiful eyes and a delicate, gentle appearance. Through her family's connections, she became engaged to Wei Chifeng, the legitimate youngest son of the Duke of Zhenguo.
But when the Shen family suddenly falls from grace, Shen Nian's position in the duke's household becomes precarious.
She intends to rely on her husband to clear her family's name, but Wei Chifeng mysteriously dies a month after their wedding.
Branded a husband-killer, ill-omened, and cursed, Shen Nian is left a widow.
Three years later, Wei Yunzhou, heir to the Duke of Zhenguo, returns home in triumph. In a secluded courtyard, he comes across Shen Nian planting flowers with her maid.
The beauty pouts, every smile and frown breathtaking, showing none of the grief one would expect from a woman whose husband has died.
Furious, Wei Yunzhou crushes a beautiful flower bud beneath his foot. "You caused your husband to die, and you still have the heart to tend flowers?"
Shen Nian looks up and backs away in fright, holding her slender fingers protectively in front of herself, on the verge of tears. "Elder brother, let me explain."
Wei Yunzhou looks at his delicate, fair-skinned younger sister-in-law with disgust. He won't hear her out, ordering her to kneel in the family shrine.
Life at the duke's residence is already difficult for Shen Nian, and it gets even worse after this heir returns. He makes her kneel, copy texts, and review the accounts.
His desire to control her gradually goes beyond what is proper between an elder brother and his younger brother's wife.
Until one night, she brings him the account books and he unexpectedly pulls her into his tent. The familiar scent and position are just like the night he left the capital three years ago.
Memories come flooding back, and Shen Nian suddenly remembers: when she first arrived at the duke's residence three years ago, it was not her husband but the Wei family's young master, Wei Yunzhou, who took her to bed!
At first, Wei Yunzhou resents her for not mourning her late husband. Later, he thinks she is too devoted to a widow's virtue.
"Niannian, I was the one who shared a bed with you."
"Niannian, has he ever kissed you the way I do?"
"Niannian, am I not good enough?"
Shen Nian is trapped in a tiny space, her almond-shaped eyes red and wet. "But, elder brother, you're about to get married..."
SC. A sweet romance where the cold, aloof heir falls for her step by step, fighting and competing for her, with plenty of good food and drink!
Theme: My heart is like water, flowing on without end.