Long, Languid Eyes

A pleasure-seeking beauty who starts with the body and ends with the heart VS an emperor, an old flame who can't stop once he's been hooked

Zhen Wu had devoted herself to spiritual cultivation at Qingxia Abbey since childhood. As soon as she returned, she took the title of the capital's greatest beauty from her cousin, the daughter of the second branch.

Even Tan Lin, the Prince of Qingping and widely acclaimed as the capital's most eligible young man, became devoted to her. He proposed three times at her door, and though she refused him, he remained infatuated.

During a hunt at Muyu Mountain, he nearly lost his life saving Zhen Wu.

But Zhen Wu knew it was all part of Tan Lin's scheme, a plot to get her father to help him become crown prince.

Once she married him and he became crown prince with her father's help, he would show his true colors. He would accuse her of being unworthy of her position because she had borne no children, then turn around and make her cousin, who was already pregnant, the crown princess.

Not long afterward, her father would be assassinated, and she would die from a cup of poisoned wine in the Eastern Palace.

So in this life, Zhen Wu watched Tan Lin's performance with cool indifference, then took people along to arrange a chance encounter with the heir of the Prince of Linyi. She planned to have her father help him become crown prince instead.

What could hurt someone more than taking away the very thing they yearned for?

Zhen Wu was pleased with her plan, and everything went smoothly. She successfully met her target, they got along splendidly, and little by little she began to feel drawn to him.

Zhen Wu believed that after living a second life, she should seize the day and enjoy herself. Once she realized she liked someone, she didn't hesitate.

One night, emboldened by wine, she went next door and pushed him down. The two of them spent a while wrapped up in each other.

Just as he was about to reveal his true identity to her, Zhen Wu went to Shuoyang to celebrate her maternal grandmother's birthday. She was gone for more than two months, and when she returned, she shut herself away.

The man, who had been waiting in agony, climbed over the wall in the middle of the night and angrily demanded from the bed, "You left without a word. What do you take me for?"

Zhen Wu guarded her belly and looked innocent. "A lover?" She froze as soon as she said it.

What had he just said?

"I"?

But wasn't the emperor incapable of performing his husbandly duties?

And now the bigger problem was: what was she supposed to do after sleeping with the emperor when she didn't want to take responsibility?

P.S. There's a large age gap.

Theme: Time is precious, so seize the day