After Abandoning the Crown Prince

Cen Ying grew up in a mountain village. One day, she went out and came back with a handsome man covered in injuries. To avoid gossip, the two got married. Her husband was cold and aloof. When she gave him sweet osmanthus cakes she could hardly bear to eat herself, he accepted them with a smile, only to toss them to the wild dogs moments later. But he gradually opened up to her, and it seemed everything was taking a turn for the better. One day, the village was suddenly raided. To save her father, Cen Ying cruelly pushed her husband off the getaway cart. "I saved your life. Now give it back to me!" The cart sped away, bandits close behind. She resolutely turned her head, afraid to look at her husband's stunned face. Later, her true identity was revealed. Cen Ying was granted the title of County Lady of Yong'an and entered the palace to give thanks. But why did the handsome, cold Crown Prince beside the throne look so much like the husband she had pushed off the cart? Cen Ying: QAQ, husband, I'm sorry! The Crown Prince and her former husband: Heh. ※ A sweet, innocent heroine × a cold, sinister dog of an emperor. A story about a man who finally realizes what he had. Second chance romance, no forced marriage or abduction. ※ A very melodramatic sweet treat. The heroine is something of a beautiful fool, with a little playing-dumb-to-catch-the-enemy. The hero has no other women or concubines. Both are virgins, 1v1. ※ All the potential trigger points are in the blurb. To head off complaints, she pushed the hero off the cart because she had to choose between her father and her husband. ※ The leads are not related by blood. The heroine's birth mother was adopted. ※ There is a controversial secondary couple with little page time who have a forced romance. Read with caution. ※ The first version of this blurb was written in February 2021. The central premise, a peasant girl finding a prince, abandoning him, then meeting him again, has been archived on Weibo and remains on pirate sites. Don't try to claim it as your own. Coming next: The series novel Spring's Embrace is complete. It takes place during the reign of the leads' daughter, when an aloof beauty descends from her pedestal! Xie Mingting, heir to the Marquis of Chenliu, is gifted in both civil and martial arts, a man of impeccable character. The Empress values him greatly, and he is only twenty when he begins introducing new laws and reforms. His future is bright. Yet in his life, he made one mistake. His younger brother died in the south, and his bride had not yet joined the family. Their mother ordered him to marry in his brother's place and continue the family line for him. He believed that, as the man responsible for administering the laws of the land, he was impartial and immune to love. He only had to appease his mother, and everything would return to normal. But on his wedding night, flower shadows covered the ground and phoenix candles shone bright. In the glow of the red candles, his bride shyly lifted her eyes. "My lord." Her bright eyes were like autumn waters, like a lotus blooming upon a clear lake. Xie Mingting's hand stopped midair as he lifted her veil, as though that lotus had landed in his heart and sent ripples through it. Under the Wei Code, anyone who has relations with his brother's wife is exiled two thousand li. * Shi Yin felt her husband had changed. Before their marriage, he had been sincere and cheerful, disregarding their difference in status. After meeting her at the Lantern Festival, he followed all the traditional betrothal rites to ask for her hand. So even knowing he had little time left to live, she entered the marriage without hesitation. But after the wedding, her husband's temperament changed. He became cold and distant. It took a great deal of effort for her to consummate the marriage with him, but their relationship was still sweet enough. Until one day, her real husband returned to the capital to visit his family and see his new bride. She was framed as having died and locked in a secret room in the residence. The one responsible was none other than her "good husband," the eldest Xie brother, Xie Mingting, who administered justice throughout the land and shared her bed every night. That day, believing her husband had died in battle, her mother-in-law ordered his older brother to marry her in his place so the family line could continue. The loving marriage she had believed in, the peaceful life they had shared, had all been a lie... In the icy, dark chamber, a cold hand brushed her cheek. "Yinyin... I was the first to meet you, and I was the one who married you. Why do you have to choose him?" Content warnings: ※ A delicate, scheming beauty vs. a refined scoundrel, the brother who pretends to be an aloof nobleman, and his lively, beautiful, clingy puppy of a younger brother. The older brother is the male lead. Both are virgins. ※ Forced romance and brothers competing for the same woman. The heroine married the older brother, and she has been married only to him throughout. There is no violation of morality. Theme: Don't lose yourself in love.