Has the Crown Prince's Pursuit of His Wife Reached the Point of No Return?

Zhizhi is beautiful, and exceptionally talented.

But she was separated from her family as a child and suffered a head injury. She was sold to a brothel, where she played music for two years. All she remembers is that she has a brother.

For those two years, everyone bullied her, and she didn't dare to speak up.

Then, at the coming-of-age banquet on her fifteenth birthday, Zhizhi is so frightened she nearly cries herself unconscious. But she spots a white jade pendant at the waist of the person seated in the most honored place. It looks exactly like hers.

Without stopping to think, she rushes over, grabs his sleeve, and calls him Brother.

The nobleman lifts Zhizhi's tear-streaked face, his expression cold and disdainful. "Who is your brother?"

It turns out he really isn't her brother. He's the Crown Prince.

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The nobleman is handsome and kind. Not only does he rescue Zhizhi, he takes her in as well.

Zhizhi obediently makes plum cakes for His Highness and embroiders him a sachet.

His Highness doesn't complain that her plum cakes taste bad. He even praises her paintings and promises to protect her.

Zhizhi assumes that His Highness likes her too.

So later, when His Highness takes her as a concubine and she is mistreated by everyone in the capital, Zhizhi still firmly believes he must like her.

It's just that this kind of love is too shallow.

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Before Song Yi realizes he loves the girl who has spent every day looking up to him, she is already standing atop the city wall. She gives him a mournful smile, then falls toward her homeland like a moth to a flame.

The proud and aloof new emperor coughs up a mouthful of blood. His eyes bloodshot, he tries to leap down after her.

Everyone knows Song Yi has gone mad.

When they meet again, he is still recovering from his serious injuries. He waits for her in the pouring rain, asking only that she look at him once more.

But Zhizhi doesn't look back, even as his hem drips with blood.

A groveling ex who begs for her back, happy ending, one-on-one romance

This is my first book, so there may be a few issues. If it's not for you, feel free to stop reading.

Note: The heroine's brother is alive, and the hero did not kill him.

Here's a preview of my upcoming groveling-ex novel, Has the Grand Tutor Begged for His Wife Back?

Grand Tutor Li Cishen is reserved and composed, a gentleman as lovely as jade.

The only thing people can criticize him for is his humble background.

Rumor has it that, in his youth, Grand Tutor Li fell on hard times and ended up as the slave of Princess Xie Zi, who subjected him to endless humiliation.

When the former dynasty fell, Xie Zi ended up in Li Ci's hands.

He settled every old score.

Xie Zi was locked in a dilapidated courtyard and left to fend for herself.

Anyone could bully her.

This princess is breathtakingly beautiful, but she is mute.

Even when she is bullied to the breaking point, she can only swallow her tears in silence. She can't even cry out loud.

Despite everything, Xie Zi still holds on to a little hope for Li Ci.

She hopes he'll remember that she once saved him, and petition the new dynasty to gather the bones of her father and mother, left exposed after their deaths.

Until one day, she sees Li Ci sitting across from the princess of the new dynasty.

When he notices her, his voice is scornful and dismissive. "If it weren't for the greater good, why would I have spared her life?"

At last, Xie Zi's heart turns to ash.

She refuses to be a pawn Li Ci can use to threaten the restoration forces. Before the city, she takes her own life, her blood splashing three feet into the air.

She will never be able to tell Li Ci

that the person who humiliated him back then was not her, Xie Zi.

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After Xie Zi dies,

Li Ci slaughters every person who ever bullied her and tears down the pagoda that suppresses the vengeful spirits of the former royal family.

He even accepts the name of traitor and rebel.

He searches the world over and seeks out the immortal mountains of Penglai, hoping to find Xie Zi's wandering soul.

Then they can grow old together, loving each other faithfully.

But everyone in the world says he has gone mad.

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When Xie Zi opens her eyes again, she wants to do only one thing:

kill Li Ci.

But Li Ci stands silently in the snowy night, watching her. Blood-red emotion surges in his restrained eyes as he takes her hand and guides the dagger into his chest.

"Your Highness, would you look back at me once in exchange for my life?"

Theme: Don't wait until you lose someone to learn to cherish them.