I Owe His Highness the Crown Prince Another Favor

A slow-witted young lady × a mad prince

As a soldier with social anxiety, Yun Menglou died taking a bullet for a junior colleague.

When she woke up, she had been reborn in the body of a foolish young lady from the prime minister's residence. To deal with the assassins pursuing her, she began a life of acting.

Unfortunately, she wasn't much of an actress.

Staring at her hand, which had grabbed the crown prince's fan on reflex, she fell silent.

"Your Highness, could you pretend you didn't see that?"

The usually gentle and courteous crown prince smiled sweetly, quite unlike himself. "Have you thought about what it will cost to silence the heir to the throne?"

As she gradually became entangled with him, she increasingly realized that this crown prince was nothing like the gentle, harmless man he appeared to be!

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"Twin Sovereigns"

As the daughter of the capital's most famous courtesan and Emperor Zhenxing, Meng Sichang was bullied in the harem from childhood and became a frail, chronically ill invalid.

In the nineteenth year of Zhenxing's reign, Daxiang settled accounts with Dongxun. She schemed to have the emperor and all the imperial heirs killed.

As the sole surviving member of the Meng imperial clan, she ascended the throne.

Everyone was fooled by her delicate, humble appearance, except for the crown prince from Nanning, Jiang Yinghui.

Whenever Jiang Yinghui saw her, he avoided her like the plague. Meng Sichang paid this no mind.

The next day, they awoke in the same bed. Looking at the man across from her, whose face was so dark it seemed ready to drip with anger, Meng Sichang smiled sweetly. "They say one night as husband and wife earns a hundred days of affection. Why the long face, Your Highness?"

But who could have expected that Prince Jiang, who had wanted to kill her at the first opportunity, would suddenly look pained, then smile back after a moment? "Your Majesty is quite right."

For once, Meng Sichang was taken aback. Why wasn't this going the way she'd imagined?

After that, the crown prince changed his tune. No longer treating her with disdain, he became gentle, attentive, and devoted.

After more than half a month of this, Meng Sichang finally couldn't take it anymore. "Are you sick or something?"

The crown prince laughed instead of getting angry, gazing at her with tender affection. "Well, Your Majesty said it yourself: one night as husband and wife earns a hundred days of affection."

A lovesick, unhinged empress × a radiant, noble crown prince

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