Marrying the Crown Prince After Breaking Off the Engagement

#The Second Male Lead Wins#

Ning Yao had always lived a charmed life.

She came from a distinguished family, was breathtakingly beautiful, and had a fiance who had placed highly in the imperial examinations.

It should have been a match made in heaven, but her fiance fell for someone else and kept a mistress he treasured like a jewel.

Heartbroken but not hung up on him, Ning Yao ended the engagement and walked away.

Before long, dressed in a wedding gown, Ning Yao took her sister's place as a bride and entered the Crown Prince's arms.

The Crown Prince was proper and restrained, warm and gentle as jade. Ning Yao found him even sweeter than life in a honey jar.

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When her former fiance discovered the secret of Ning Yao's stand-in marriage, jealousy drove him mad. He wanted her to fake her death and escape, so she could once again be his childhood sweetheart.

With a calm expression, Ning Yao refused.

Not long after, Ning Yao's secret was exposed. While she panicked, the Crown Prince pulled her into his arms and comforted her gently: "So what if you married in your sister's place? I only recognize you, my dear."

[Reader advisory: Contains a melodramatic amnesia plot, but no angst.]

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To save money, Mu Yao wanted to find a roommate.

But her rental ad went unanswered online for a whole month. When she finally found someone willing to share the place, it was the very person she'd secretly loved in high school but never dared to pursue.

Looking at her former celebrity crush, whose star had faded, Mu Yao took pity on him and agreed to share the apartment.

"Rent is three months upfront, with a one-month deposit. We'll split the utilities, too."

Lin Jiachen took his phone from his trench coat pocket and said unhurriedly, "Let's add each other as friends so I can transfer the money."

Their life as roommates was calm and peaceful, but Mu Yao noticed that Lin Jiachen's schedule was wide open, and he kept replacing his assistants with people who were even less professional than the last.

Was he so broke he couldn't afford an assistant?

She wasn't busy anyway. She could give him a hand and earn some extra cash.

After hearing her suggestion, Lin Jiachen considered it. "If you work as my assistant, you'll have to sign a contract."

He was practically broke, yet still had so many demands.

Mu Yao gave him a fake smile. "Fine."

Once she started working part-time as his assistant, Mu Yao realized it was more exhausting than a regular job.

She had to drive him to filming, pick him up afterward, and even buy him medicine when he drank too much at a business dinner and got a stomachache.

He wasn't washed up! Not at all!

Mu Yao wanted to quit, but the man brought out the contract and said casually, "You'll just have to pay ten times the amount in damages."

She put up with it for the sake of the penalty fee.

At a drinking party, Mu Yao helped Lin Jiachen into the room. Before she could even kick off her high heels, he pinned her against the door.

His breath reeked of alcohol as it brushed against the side of her neck. "Tell me the truth. Am I washed up in your eyes?"

*The protagonists' names have been changed.

*They fall for each other, and a secret crush comes true.

Theme: Love can last only when it goes both ways.