The Reborn Crown Prince's Moonlight

Advance notice for The Eastern Palace's Beauty. Add it to your collection if you like!

In her previous life, Li Shu was a low-ranking maid in the Cold Palace. She accompanied Fu Chen as he entered the Eastern Palace, watching the once-gloomy boy put aside his viciousness and reveal his brilliance.

She counted down the days, saving money so she could leave the palace when she came of age and open a pastry shop.

When she told Fu Chen her plan, the usually composed and severe Crown Prince suddenly changed his expression.

Before Li Shu could ask what was wrong, she caught sight of something and lunged in front of Fu Chen, taking an assassin's blade for him.

A blood-red flower bloomed over her heart. Fu Chen's eyes grew frantic, and he held her helplessly in his arms.

Li Shu managed a faint smile, took his hand, and whispered, "Fu Chen, don't be angry anymore, okay?"

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Word around Shengjing was that Crown Prince Fu Chen had a white moonlight in his heart.

The woman wore a pale purple gauze dress and had a graceful figure.

Her portraits filled the Eastern Palace, yet no one knew what she looked like.

Some claimed she was Xu Rurong, a daughter of the Xu family.

Li Shu returned to the capital as the legitimate granddaughter of the Duke of Wen.

At the Peach Blossom Banquet, Xu Rurong spilled tea on the hem of her skirt.

Li Shu changed into a pale purple gauze dress. She was a beauty like a painting, with an exquisitely lovely face.

Crown Prince Fu Chen suddenly appeared before her, shielding her from the ill-intentioned stares. He took her scalded wrist and gently asked, "Does it still hurt?"

The next day, everyone in Shengjing knew the Crown Prince had fallen for the Li family's daughter.

# A Shu, I'm not angry anymore. Won't you come back?

A few things to know:

1. The story is entirely fictional, and its dynasty is not based on any verifiable historical period.

2. One-on-one romance, both virgins, both reborn.

---Advance notice blurb---

The Eastern Palace's Beauty

Yun Tang, the illegitimate daughter of the Marquis of Anyang, was radiant and captivating. As soon as she returned to the capital, she caught the eye of a young master from the Gu family.

Her elder sister was in love with that young master, making Yun Tang's situation increasingly difficult. One day, while visiting a temple to burn incense, she was drugged as part of a plot.

In her panic, Yun Tang stumbled into the plum garden. A man in a dark robe with a subtle pattern stood before her. Hearing the footsteps of her pursuers drawing closer outside the courtyard, she grabbed his sleeve in despair and begged, "Save me."

Later, at a banquet hosted by the Duke's residence, she learned that the man was Li Yan, the Crown Prince. He was indifferent to women and despised women who schemed to get close to him.

Terrified, her legs gave way, and she knelt before him, saying she would never dare ask the Crown Prince to take responsibility.

But her stepmother controlled her marriage and intended to destroy both her life and her reputation.

With nowhere else to turn, Yun Tang knelt beside the bed and summoned all her courage. She reached out and gently hooked a finger around the Crown Prince's palm. Tears filled her peach-blossom eyes as she called out, helpless and fragile, "Your Highness."

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Crown Prince Li Yan was handsome and distinguished, with a cool and detached temperament. He had no bedchamber maid even as he approached the age of twenty.

While the noble young ladies fought fiercely for the position of Crown Princess, an imperial decree of marriage made an illegitimate daughter of the Marquis of Anyang the Crown Prince's secondary consort.

Everyone said Yun Tang had bewitched the heir apparent, but they didn't know the Crown Prince wanted something from her, too.

He suffered from debilitating headaches. When they struck, he was in unbearable pain and became violently bloodthirsty. Only physical contact with Yun Tang could ease them.

The young woman was timid and afraid of him, so he patiently waited until the day she came to ask him for help. Under her anxious gaze, he asked with a faint smile, "What are you asking for this time, Miss Yun?"

"Yun Tang... begs Your Highness to protect me."

"...All right."

Theme: Let go of prejudice and misinterpretation, and treat those closest to you with your most sincere self.