With Jiaojiao

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Chen Yan, the cousin who lives at the Pingnan Marquis residence, is blessed with gorgeous hair, a slender waist, and beauty enough to topple kingdoms. Unfortunately, she's a little simple-minded.

Chen Yan was betrothed to the heir of the Pingnan Marquis at birth, but he disliked her. He arranged for someone to take her virginity, then used the incident as an excuse to break off their engagement and drive her out of the marquis's residence.

The day Chen Yan was thrown out, a crowd gathered to watch. Pointing at her, the heir said, "You shameless wretch. You got pregnant by another man, and when you give birth to that bastard..."

Amid the commotion, the Crown Prince's carriage stopped in front of the residence. His presence was imposing. "Did you just say that my child is a bastard?"

Then Crown Prince Xie Xiao Jue turned to A Yan and scolded her in a gruff voice. "Come here. You've been wronged, so why didn't you come to me? Do you think I'm dead?"

Chen Yan pouted and burst into tears.

Xiao Jue stiffened. The usually stern and ruthless Crown Prince personally carried her into the carriage and coaxed her in a gentle voice. "Don't cry. Did he bully you? I'll kill him."

Only then did the woman in his arms tug on his collar and say, "You can't just kill people."

The Crown Prince suffers from a strange ailment: he dislikes women and never lets them near him.

Until one day, someone played a trick on him and locked him in a room with a woman. After that, he changed completely.

He spent five out of every ten days with that woman. The Empress was overjoyed and hurried to ask the attendants by his side, only to learn that her son... had often been climbing over the wall at night to visit someone.

The Empress was at her wits' end. When she pressed for more details, she learned that the woman was the betrothed of the Pingnan Marquis's heir.

Stealing another man's fiancée... well, it wasn't out of the question. The Empress doted on her son and intended to ask the Emperor to issue an edict. Before she could, though, her son had already brought the woman home.

He was calling her "good girl" and "baby." He was nothing like the way he'd been before.

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A Pillow of Sweetness

Because she was born with the face of a femme fatale, Bao Yan is always mistaken for a scheming seductress.

In truth, she's a beautiful airhead with no great ambitions. Her life's goal is to eat well and wait for death.

The heir to Prince Liang is captivated by Bao Yan's beauty. He finds a certain poison somewhere and plans to use it on both Bao Yan and himself.

By a twist of fate, though, the poison is administered to Bao Yan and the Crown Prince instead.

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Crown Prince Shen Chen has always been aloof and chaste, and has little interest in women.

One day, he meets a seductress who makes a clumsy attempt to entice him. Shen Chen looks down on her and naturally wants nothing to do with her.

But somehow, from that day on, he dreams of the seductress every night.

Later, Shen Chen learns that he was poisoned.

The poison is called Hundred-Day Delight. To break the spell, he must find the seductress, and the poison can only be cured after a hundred days. If it isn't cured, both of them will be in danger of dying.

Shen Chen has no choice but to take the seductress as his concubine.

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A hundred days later, Bao Yan happily goes to bid Shen Chen farewell. "Your Highness, now that your poison is cured, I'll be going home to get married."

Shen Chen nods. He promised the seductress that once the poison was cured, he would let her go home and marry.

The poison has been cured, but after the seductress leaves, Shen Chen still can't sleep at night.

When he sees Bao Yan again, she's meeting with the son of a minor official. The two are chatting happily and seem to have hit it off.

Shen Chen crushes the teacup in his hand.

Bao Yan hadn't expected to see Shen Chen, and he seems to have been poisoned again.

"Your Highness, hasn't your poison been cured?"

Shen Chen answers a different question. "His father is only a fifth-rank official, and there's already a beautiful concubine in his household."

Bao Yan is a bit slow and doesn't understand.

Shen Chen's gaze burns as he closes in on Bao Yan. "But Mo Bao Yan, if you marry me, you'll be the Crown Princess of Great Zhao. You know that I've only ever had you."

*One-on-one romance, both leads' first and only: aloof and chaste x airheaded beauty

Theme: Stay grounded and build a better future together.