A Coward's Tale (Transmigrate into a Book)

Pre-order: My Birthday Encounter is in progress. Please add it to your reading list!

#She runs away while pregnant midway through the story#

Genius, aloof Crown Prince x timid daughter of the Grand Tutor

Jiang Rou transmigrates into a book, becoming the brainless second female lead.

The Grand Tutor's only daughter, she is tricked into becoming pregnant with the Crown Prince's child. She begs her way into the position of Crown Princess, but has neither power nor influence in the Crown Prince's residence and is constantly bullied by the palace maids. In the end, she kills the Crown Prince's beloved first love out of jealousy, and the Crown Prince flies into a rage and has her entire family executed.

She stomps all over the plot and wails, "I don't want to die!"

(The love hidden on paper overflows like a flood. All it takes is a spark outside to set it free.)

Guard: "Women are best at getting jealous. If Your Highness really wants to know whether she likes you, why not give her what she wants and marry Song Anqing?"

"She's timid." Lu Yan moves his brush across the paper, sketching the woman's profile. After a long pause, he continues, "I'm afraid she only likes me a little. If I do what you suggest, she'll really leave and never see me again."

Blurb archived on December 25, revised January 20.

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"Fate brings people together and draws them apart. Obsession takes its winding course. When two hearts are set on each other, fate will bring them to a happy ending."

Shen Qingrong is a treasured young lady from a prominent family, pampered and adored from childhood. Because her grandfather arranged a betrothal for her long ago, she was destined from birth to marry a poor, frail scholar.

The elders of the Shen family look down on the scholar's humble background and spend every day plotting how to annul the engagement. But she likes him very much and is terrified he'll run away.

On the day classes end, she pushes open Pei Luo's door and glares at him, cheeks puffed in anger.

"You bookworm! You're betrothed to me, so if that woman with the rouge comes around again, don't open the door!"

The man at his desk looks up from his calligraphy and smiles. "All right, I'll do as you say."

"You dummy, I heard you went to buy candied hawthorns today. Why didn't you take me with you?" she says, aggrieved.

The scholar holds out the candied hawthorns he'd hidden behind his back. "The books say it's a surprise."

Theme: Love is a gentle stream that flows on and on.