Meng Yuying

The next novel, After Fleeing with the Hostage Prince, is being painstakingly drafted. Feel free to add it to your collection!

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A scheming puppy who starts out sweet and ends up a cunning wolf of a male lead × a calm, composed "dog trainer" female lead

As the daughter of the former Chief Imperial Physician, Zhishi witnessed the royal family's heartlessness firsthand. Her father devoted half his life to serving them with all his heart, only to be hunted down and die full of poison and resentment. To protect herself, Zhishi decided to stay far from the strife and spend the rest of her life in peace.

All those plans changed the moment she found a mysterious man in the snow.

"A Zhi, I want to stay with you."

"I don't take in freeloaders."

"Look, A Zhi, flowers for you."

"..."

After he recovered, the man resorted to every trick in the book, crying, making a scene, and threatening to hang himself, until he had latched onto Zhishi. She couldn't drive him away or even scold him into leaving.

Fine. It was just one more set of chopsticks at the table.

One day, while Zhishi was lounging in the sun, a richly dressed young man suddenly knelt before the man.

"We welcome the Crown Prince back to the palace."

Only then did she belatedly realize that her clingy "puppy" was Li Zishen, the Crown Prince himself.

After returning to the palace, Li Zishen was still elegant and dignified, but he no longer asked after her or showed her any warmth. His thoughtfulness was gone. The sweet words that had once filled his face were replaced by nothing but reproaches about rules and etiquette.

"What would you do if I were gone?" Having lost the child she carried, Zhishi gave Li Zishen one final chance. But the person before her had already become a stranger.

In response to her question, Li Zishen only said, "I'm busy. We'll talk tomorrow."

After returning to the manor, was there ever a day when he wasn't busy? Zhishi couldn't even remember how long it had been since she last saw him. It seemed all that remained between them were endless arguments and the grievances she had swallowed time and time again.

When Li Zishen finally thought of her again, Zhishi had already vanished without a trace.

From then on, word spread through the capital that the Crown Prince had gone mad. Li Zishen, consumed by regret, went on a rampage, turning everything upside down. He tried seduction, feigned injury, and every other scheme, acting pitiful and begging forgiveness, even going so far as to turn his blade on himself.

"A Zhi, let's not separate, okay?"

Coming soon: After Fleeing with the Hostage Prince. The Hostage Prince's Long Road to Winning His Wife Back

Peizi was an ignored prayer maiden in the Shang Kingdom, confined to a tiny corner and regarded by others as a thoughtless wooden doll.

One day, the city gates fell and the Di people stormed the palace. Even amid the sea of flames, no one cared whether she lived or died. But Su Bona, a hostage prince from the Ji Kingdom, escaped in the chaos and, with all the fiery courage of youth, rescued the girl sitting cross-legged, unaware that the world outside had already changed.

The innocent, naive prayer maiden was forced to seize this lifeline and flee the palace with him.

After escaping, Peizi was on her guard at every turn. She feared Su Bona might be a villain who would get her killed, but also feared he might abandon her along the way. Having never set foot in the outside world, she couldn't survive on her own. With no other choice, she followed close behind him while always keeping a safe distance.

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In Su Bona's eyes, the little palace maid he'd rescued out of necessity was gentle and attentive, always following behind him like a well-behaved shadow. Her voice was just a little too quiet. Whenever he couldn't hear her and asked her to repeat herself, her cheeks would turn red. It was adorable.

"This little maid must have been cooped up in the palace for too long. Now that she's escaped, I should show her a good time."

So Su Bona, who had planned to return to the Ji Kingdom as quickly as possible, ended up spending a great deal of time in shops and forests along the way.

But when he finally returned to the Ji Kingdom, he was met not with the joy of a long-awaited reunion, but with his father and mother's fear that the Shang Kingdom would demand an explanation for the hostage prince's escape. Before he had even had a chance to settle in, his own family was already begging him to return to another country.

What surprised him even more was that Peizi chose that very moment to take on the duty of sending her master, the runaway hostage prince, back to his country.

So it had all been wishful thinking on his part...

Theme: Building trust between people and avoiding unnecessary misunderstandings