I Mistook the Crown Prince for My Fiancé

(Main story complete~) Shen Wangshu has a nightmare in which she's the cousin betrothed to the male lead in a tale. The male lead has been missing for years, and she is drugged and sent to the Crown Prince's bed by villains. Forced to become his concubine and imprisoned in the Eastern Palace, she is later sentenced to death by poison for trying to assassinate him. Her death sets her cousin, the male lead, and the Crown Prince against each other. To change her fate, Shen Wangshu plans to stay away from the Crown Prince and find her cousin, who has been missing for years. Outside Jizhou City, she recognizes her severely wounded cousin by the jade token from their betrothal. She brings him home and carefully nurses him, showering him with kindness. Once they come of age, she intends to honor their engagement and live out the rest of her life in peace. But something seems off. Her cousin is arrogant and violent, and treats human life as worthless. He's not at all as she imagined, and seems rather like the Crown Prince... Fortunately, under her care, the look in her cousin's eyes changes from cruel and wary to gentle and affectionate. He helps and protects her. Then, at a banquet, her "cousin" appears in brocade robes, seated high above the crowd as the officials bow and cry, "Long live the Crown Prince!" Shen Wangshu: "...I picked up the wrong person. Help, QAQ!" She packs her things that very night and tries to run, but outside the imperial capital, the Imperial Guards surround her in layer upon layer. Shen Wangshu is caught red-handed. The Crown Prince sits high on his horse, smiling carelessly, though his eyes are cold. He hooks her chin up with his riding crop. "Running away?" My current book, One Thing Subdues Another, is looking for readers. Visit my author page to add it to your library: One Thing Subdues Another by Qi Bei Jiu Lu Xingliu is the only son of the Lu family, one of the most powerful families in the capital. With striking features, he looks as though he stepped out of a misty landscape painting. He's aloof and proud, with rules and propriety etched into his bones. An odd one out in the decadent world of the wealthy, he becomes even stricter with himself after entering military school. Others fear offending him, and speak to him nervously, considering every word. Even raising their voices slightly leaves them in a cold sweat. Chi Jiabao is the only daughter of a nouveau-riche family from the countryside. Spoiled rotten since childhood, she's domineering and does whatever she pleases. Her catchphrase is, "Do you know who my dad is?" The two of them have nothing in common, until one day Lu Xingliu agrees to a friend's request to serve as an instructor on a show meant to reform spoiled rich kids. Lu Xingliu is so cold and harsh that the rich kids cry for their parents and fear him like a tiger. When Chi Jiabao first arrives, she has three gold chains around her neck, eight gold rings on her fingers, and a knockoff LV bag she was tricked into buying slung over her waist. The first time she sees Lu Xingliu, she drops a bank card in front of him and says arrogantly, "Hey, handsome. Two hundred thousand for a month with you." "Great. I've never been rejected before. Do you know who my dad is?" Lu Xingliu: "...Get lost." The first time she sees Lu Xingliu, Chi Jiabao is so bewitched by his looks that she brags to her friends that she'll win over the ice-cold beauty within a month. They say a flower on a high peak is for admiring from afar, not up close. Chi Jiabao not only gets up close, she plucks him and shamelessly has her way with him. She never expects that one fling will lead to a huge mess. Chi Jiabao: Oh no, I need to run. Theme: Never give up hope, even when faced with adversity