The long-lost biological daughter of the Anxi Prefect was brought back. After spending more than a decade in the countryside, she had long since lost the bearing of a noblewoman.
She had the face of a lotus, but the heart of a man-eating flower.
She looked like a jade Guanyin, yet nearly killed the virtuous and talented girl who had been raised in her place out of jealousy!
The gossip reached Sheng Mingyue as she reclined lazily on a chaise longue.
"They make me sound like a murderer. It's not as if she actually died."
The man beside her was pale, yet his features still held an air of nobility. At her words, his gaze fell on the slender, knife-like waist beneath her dress. Remembering something, the tips of his ears turned red.
She really was bewitching and deadly.
Sheng Mingyue smiled as she ran her fingers over the abacus in her hands.
She was just a little white lotus. What did rumors matter? One day, she would build a prosperous, peaceful boulevard for the person she loved, where lanterns would burn day and night and people would come and go without end.
And that boulevard would belong to her, Sheng Mingyue.
*
Xuan Chuning, the seventh prince of Northern Xia, had been pampered and treated like precious jade since childhood. But caught up in a chaotic struggle between factions, he was gravely wounded. At death's door, he was rescued by a woman named Sheng Mingyue.
He never expected her to be so alluring and ruthless, forcing him to teach himself how to do laundry and cook. She also loved warming her delicate bare feet against his chest.
To stay alive, Xuan Chuning gritted his teeth and endured it, thinking only of the situation in the palace and hoping to return as soon as possible.
But later, when the people sent to retrieve him knelt along the entire street before her house, he coldly shut the door in their faces. Meeting Sheng Mingyue's confused gaze, he said calmly, "No idea who they are. Never seen them."
*
Some time later.
Little Xuan: "Dad! Someone said I'm ugly! That's as ridiculous as a gathering of old eunuchs!"
Xuan Chuning's brow twitched. "...Don't talk like your mother."
"They also said Mom has no manners!"
Xuan Chuning: "Who said that? Where's my knife?!"
★ A beautiful, ruthless real heiress and the handsome man she kindly picked up to warm her bed
Theme: You make your own good life