After the Deposed Crown Prince Was Forced to Become a Monk

[Historical Romance: The Willow Waist] is now serializing

In the twenty-third year of Zhengping under the Great Liang, Crown Prince Xuan Mingfan plotted treason and incurred the emperor's wrath. He was stripped of his title as heir and banished.

Not long afterward, the deposed crown prince shaved his head and became a monk at Kaiyuan Temple, turning his back on worldly affairs. Three years later, the emperor fell gravely ill, yet had no sons left to inherit the throne.

The deposed crown prince, who had been chanting sutras and praying at Kaiyuan Temple, became the only person qualified to inherit the throne.

But when the ministers crowded the temple gate, they saw the once dignified and noble Crown Prince in plain white robes, his expression serene and spotless, his dark eyes calm and unruffled.

With the emperor at death's door and Prince Rong controlling the court, the prime minister realized that unless they could persuade the crown prince to change his mind, the empire would pass into other hands.

Eventually, the ministers came up with a plan. They selected a beautiful palace maid and sent her to him under cover of night, hoping to make him break his vows.

Ning Xiang had been entrusted with an important mission. Trembling, she entered his room, then fled in terror before dawn.

Fortunately, no one in the palace knew she had served the deposed crown prince, so Ning Xiang went right back to being a contented little palace maid.

Two months later, she discovered she was pregnant. The new emperor, whose compassionate face had always been devoted to chanting sutras and praying, fixed a burning gaze on her belly.

A deposed crown prince devoted to Buddhism who must inherit the throne x a charming, flirtatious palace maid who runs away while pregnant

Reader's Guide:

1. The early chapters set things up. He leaves the monastery around chapter 25.

2. One-on-one romance, both are each other's first, imperfect characters.

3. My writing has its limits and can't be perfect. If it's not your thing, please stop reading in time.

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Blurb:

The Mu family is an illustrious clan, renowned throughout Jinling. When Xu Xianchun married Mu Rongxiu, everyone said she was not worthy of him.

After four years of marriage without a child, her husband despised her and her parents-in-law mocked her. In the entire Mu family, only her brother-in-law, Mu Rongjing, occasionally spoke up for her.

For years, Xu Xianchun had tread carefully in the Mu household, enduring humiliation at every turn. But when Mu Rongxiu secretly took a mistress and her parents-in-law called her a barren hen, the usually gentle and virtuous Xu Xianchun finally couldn't take it anymore.

That night, with the stars and moon hanging low and frost biting the air, she walked barefoot into Mu Rongjing's study, her reddened eyes full of desperate appeal.

The well-dressed man sat at his desk, his expression cool and his gaze dark. His long, elegant fingers gripped the book with restrained force.

"Sister-in-law, you've come to the wrong place."

Xu Xianchun clutched her skirt, mortified. At last, she turned away, eyes red.

Books scattered across the desk as she was pulled into a broad, warm embrace.

A hoarse, low voice sounded by her ear: "I've changed my mind."

"Since you've come, stay."

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The Mu family's second young master, Mu Rongjing, is as bright and clear as the moon, gentle as jade, well-read in the classics, and gifted in statecraft.

But his elder brother's new bride became the nightmare that kept him awake at night.

With her willow waist and hibiscus face, her voice sweet and lilting, she called his name over and over beneath the red curtains.

But when he awoke, she stood quietly beside Mu Rongxiu, beautiful as snow and gentle as water.

He watched indifferently, waiting for her to grow weary of the cold shoulder and the humiliation, and ask him for help.

At last, she came to him in the dead of night, her beautiful eyes filled with panic and hope.

She asked if he could give her a child.

The book crumpled in his hand. Mu Rongjing's heart was completely undone.

P.S. Mu Rongxiu is the one who can't lay eggs.

P.P.S. There is absolutely nothing romantic between them before the divorce. Their feelings only develop after the divorce!!!

Theme: Keep the people and the world in your heart, and deliver all from suffering.