After Flirting with the Crown Prince's Father by Mistake

(Complete) [Age Gap | Size Difference | Older Man Spoils Her | Pawn Becomes Wife]

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Baohua has served as a covert guard since childhood. Life has been hard for her over the past sixteen years, and she knows little about love. Yet her master orders her to seduce the Crown Prince.

To make her beauty-based scheme succeed, she prepares every seductive trick she can think of. But things do not go as planned.

The Crown Prince finds her badly wounded and takes her in, tending to her with great care. He gives her food, clothes, and affection she has never known.

There is only one problem: his private tastes are downright strange. He likes playing daddy!

He is always patting her head and saying he will raise her. In public, he is dignified and ascetic, beyond reproach. In private, he tells her to call him “Daddy.”

Baohua does not understand. She assumes it is bedroom talk, and blushes as she uses the endearment to complete her mission.

But little by little, whenever the Crown Prince strokes her head and speaks gently to her, Baohua finds herself going weak in the knees, forgetting her mission and who she is.

On the day she finally succeeds in serving the Crown Prince, she thinks: If only she had never been a covert guard. She wants so badly to stay by his side and be cherished by him.

But… what does it mean that the man who has been entangled with her for days, unable to let her go, is not the Crown Prince, but his father? The current emperor!

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Emperor Jing'an is naturally aloof and keeps his distance from women. On a sudden impulse of compassion, he takes in and treats a badly wounded young girl.

He patiently cares for her, spoiling her like a princess and often keeping her in line.

He had meant to adopt her as his sworn daughter. But after spending so much time together, they develop romantic feelings for each other.

He intends to reveal his identity and make her a consort, but accidentally discovers her secret affair with his son, Prince Yu.

Only then does he realize that the little wife he has doted on all this time is a scheming covert guard.

Torn between love and hate, he corners her, only for her to keep lying:

“Your Highness, the Crown Prince, Prince Yu bullied me. You have to kill him. He wants to steal your throne.”

“…What Crown Prince? What throne? His Majesty is still on the throne. How could it be the Crown Prince’s?”

She clings to him and pouts, lowering her eyes to wipe away her tears. “Why do you care about your father? His Majesty is old already. He doesn’t have many years left.”

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When Baohua finds out she has seduced the emperor by mistake and called him an old man, she promptly runs away.

But a covert guard has no home and no one to rely on. Adrift in the world, she still misses the emperor’s tenderness and care.

So when he finds her, coldly lifts her back onto his lap, and asks if she dares run away again, Baohua answers timidly, just as she used to:

“I won’t run… Baohua will always listen to Daddy and stay by his side.”

[A naive young covert guard is taken in by an ascetic older daddy, transforming from a stray kitten into a beautiful darling who can never leave him again]

------PLEASE READ BEFORE STARTING------

1. Huge age gap of 16 years, both leads have no prior sexual experience, happy ending.

2. The heroine is not related by blood to the hero or either of the two other male characters at any point while their relationships are ongoing. Some forms of address in the blurb arise from misunderstandings between characters. The blurb is too short to cover the whole story and only highlights some of its events. The full story's narrative logic takes precedence.

Coming next: From Father to Husband

In her previous life, Yuni was convinced that Zhao Shilan was the man destined to be her husband.

When their affair was discovered, she threw herself in front of her adoptive father's blade.

“Am I supposed to stay by your side for the rest of my life?”

On the day she married, her adoptive father told her:

“While at home, obey your father; once married, obey your husband. Now that you are his wife, you and I have nothing more to do with each other.”

Yuni was heartbroken. After the wedding, she found comfort only in her husband's kindness and tenderness.

But in the second year of their marriage, her adoptive father's influence at court began to wane, and everything changed.

Her husband showed his true colors, bringing two concubines into the household while they were pregnant, and coldly watching as his mother tormented and mistreated Yuni.

In the fourth year of their marriage, her adoptive father died. Her husband made the acquaintance of a newly risen favorite and wanted to marry his benefactor's daughter:

“Either ask to become a concubine, or I’ll divorce you and have you made a government courtesan, disgracing the name of the bandit Lin.”

Only then did Yuni learn the truth about what had happened back then. Zhao Shilan had schemed to win her over, then betrayed her adoptive father once he had gained power.

He seized the inheritance her adoptive father had left her, claiming that her father had disowned her, and prevented them from seeing each other one last time.

Yuni regretted everything. On the night of Zhao Shilan’s wedding, she set the Zhao residence ablaze.

When she opened her eyes again, she had returned to the day after her wedding.

Her adoptive father was still at the height of his power, and Zhao Shilan was merely his protégé, entirely dependent on his patronage.

Yuni immediately asked to return to her family home to see her adoptive father, but her maid looked confused and told her she was already there.

“Look, this is the Lin residence. My lord sent someone to bring you home first thing this morning.”

The maid explained that Zhao Shilan had been posted away from the capital by her adoptive father and would not return for six months. Until then, she could stay safely by his side.

Yuni looked at the golden lock hanging outside her bedroom and remembered those words:

“While at home, obey your father; once married, obey your husband.”

When she obeyed her father, he spoiled her for twelve years. Now she wanted to obey her husband again, to be his wife and let him spoil her all over again.

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Lin Yingqin rose to prominence at a young age and became a high-ranking minister. He devoted himself to holding up a crumbling dynasty and saving the country from crisis.

But as the tide of history turned, with his life ending in a coughing fit of blood, there was only one thing he regretted.

Zhao Shilan was a treacherous wolf. He had married Yuni into a den of wolves and ruined the rest of her life.

The girl he had cherished since childhood deserved to remain under his protection.

Now that he had been reborn, he thought: Since a woman should obey her husband after marriage, it was time to take Yuni back and make her his wife.

2026.08.30

1. Both leads are reborn, both have no prior sexual experience, age gap of 16 years.

2. This blurb is only a summary of the story. The term “adoptive father” is used for brevity; the details are complicated, so please refer to the novel itself.

3. Clarification about the leads' relationship: “Adoptive father” is a title, and they are not related by blood. The heroine is the daughter of the hero's benefactor, who entrusted her to his care. The hero taught her to read, while his mother took care of her daily needs. The heroine has distant relatives on her father's side and belongs to their family. She would occasionally stay at the hero's home for a while. They had no romantic feelings before she married. Their romance begins only after both are reborn in their second lives, and the heroine has no romantic feelings during her marriage to the second male lead mentioned in the blurb.

Theme: Love is like tending a flower