A Mistake Between You and Me

★A friendly warning: This was an early practice novel. Maybe don't read it yet; it'll be revised later.★

Blurb:

A scheming yet innocent prince x a calculating, obsessive beauty

Shen Linyan, the eldest legitimate daughter of the Shen family, was sent to the countryside to recuperate as a child.

By the time she had grown into a cool and ethereal beauty, she returned to the Shen estate, only to be framed and married off to the Seventh Prince, a cruel and violent man with a physical disability.

On their wedding day, she was carried into the prince's residence against her will.

When her veil was lifted, she saw that the man before her was nothing like the rumors had described.

Beneath red silk and candlelit curtains, she asked coldly, "Your Highness, you don't mind even if you've married the wrong person?"

Sitting in his wheelchair, the man lifted her chin with a wedding scale and chuckled. "I never make mistakes."

She only wants to stay alive and keep a courteous, respectful relationship with the Seventh Prince, playing the part of a polite couple. But who could have known that, caught up in the schemes around her, she'd face even more storms...

Later,

Jun Chu outmaneuvers everyone and finally claims the throne.

The once-disabled prince becomes the object of desire for countless noblewomen.

Having fulfilled her purpose, Shen Linyan steps aside willingly to make way for those who come after her.

But unexpectedly, the man holds the imperial seal in his hand and slowly presses it against her trembling body. "Where is the empress going? Are you planning to abandon me and elope with someone?"

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In his youth, Jun Chu was hailed as a once-in-a-generation genius.

After his mother died young, he became the empress's adopted son. Though she appeared loving, behind the scenes she did all she could to control him. Everywhere he looked, traps lay in wait. Every step was perilous.

He only remembered the sudden softness in his arms the first time he met her.

Worn out from all the schemes and calculations, he trembled, and the thin ice in his heart slowly began to melt.

Marrying her wasn't something he was forced into. It was a love he'd planned for a long time.

Content warnings:

1. Alternate history

2. Male lead: "I'm pretending to be disabled."

3. The author's first novel, so it might not be very good, orz

Theme: Even when trapped in a mire, grow fiercely and keep pressing forward.