Fragrant and Alluring

Novel Description

(In one sentence: Later, he begged me every day to become his crown princess.)

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In her previous life, Jia Wu was set up and forced to spend a night with Crown Prince Shen Jin.

From then on, she lived in the Eastern Palace as his secret concubine.

Perhaps this radiant and refined crown prince hated her for ruining his reputation. He never gave her a title.

Later, her father, the Marquis of Anyuan, was falsely accused, and her clan members were imprisoned one by one. The marquis's residence was on the brink of ruin.

To protect her loved ones, she had no choice but to study all sorts of disreputable arts to please Shen Jin.

But Shen Jin rejected her pleas without mercy, looking down at her from on high. “I don’t want to hear it.”

The day Jia Wu died was the day Shen Jin ascended the throne.

Someone took the only token she had from her closest loved one and forced her to jump to her death.

When she climbed the city wall, she saw Shen Jin in the distance, running toward her in a lavish imperial robe embroidered with the Twelve Ornaments, looking utterly disheveled.

It was the first time she had ever seen the usually poised and dignified crown prince lose control like that.

As Jia Wu leapt without hesitation, she thought she was surely going to die. But when she opened her eyes again, she had been reborn at the age of fifteen.

Back then, she was still the celebrated legitimate daughter of the marquis's household, envied by all in the capital.

And Shen Jin was nothing more than a lowly slave in her household, not even worthy of a name.

Grateful for the chance to live her life over, Jia Wu tightly curled her fingers inside her sleeve.

This time, with him in her hands, she would make him taste what it meant to wish for death.

Shen Jin was born unable to live in the light, and spent his life in darkness. He drifted into the marquis's household and became a lowly slave who could barely speak, someone anyone could bully.

Until he met a girl in the household.

On a bright spring day, the girl clenched her snowy fist and chased off everyone who had bullied him.

She took out a fragrant handkerchief and gently wiped his face. “From now on, stay by my side. I’ll protect you.”

He pretended not to see the deception in her eyes and played along.

What he did not know then was that, in both his previous life and this one, he would be under her spell, heartbroken and utterly devastated because of her.

Notes:

1. The heroine is reborn in Chapter 9. She is doted on by everyone later, and many people fall for her.

2. The hero is a virgin. There is a groveling-to-win-her-back arc, with plenty of angst for him.

3. Later, the hero becomes the heroine’s devoted, humble admirer and remembers his previous life.

4. The hero was not responsible for the heroine’s family’s downfall in her previous life. There was more to it.

Theme: Learning to be independent is how we grow.