My Betrothed Was Chosen by the Crown Prince

When Ji Rongjing returns to the capital, he learns that his older brother, who was supposed to marry into the Duke’s household, has backed out of the marriage, and Ji Rongjing will take his place.

His brother gloats: “I’ll soon rise to prominence and enjoy wealth and glory. You can just wait to die!”

In his previous life, Ji Rongjing married a merchant, but through a twist of fate, he caught the eye of a noble and eventually became empress.

This time, it’s his turn to enjoy the good life. The man who takes his place in the Duke’s household is tormented by the entire family.

Ji Rongjing, with a healing spiritual spring and a family medical text in hand: “What, me?”

Painkillers, life-saving pills, his own special acupuncture techniques, and even remedies for epidemics...

The lost medicines and healing arts return to the world.

Before long, everyone in Yanjing knows that the best physician isn’t in the imperial palace, but at the Ji Family Clinic in the city.

His skill can bring the dying back to life, and he practices medicine with compassion. His reputation spreads from Yanjing to Jiangnan...

Only the Ji family refuses to believe it.

Until one day, they see with their own eyes Ji Rongjing, the man the whole family despises, being pulled into the arms of His Highness the Crown Prince.

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Everyone knows that the crown prince of this dynasty, He Xuan, has long enjoyed a reputation for virtue and treats his subordinates with tolerance. But after the emperor falls gravely ill, he suddenly bares his fangs, seizes the throne in a coup, and stains the floor of the Taiji Hall with blood.

The powerful clans and nobles of Yanjing are ruthlessly purged. When it is the Duke’s household’s turn, he shows mercy and lets them off lightly.

Everyone speculates that the Duke’s household will produce a new empress. They don’t know that the crown prince has set his sights not on one of the Duke’s children, but on the Duke’s “daughter-in-law.”

But good fortune doesn’t last. An imperial decree arrives, ordering one person to die in place of the entire family.

Without hesitation, the Duke’s household puts forward Ji Rongjing.

The next day, there’s no rumor that their daughter-in-law has been beheaded. Instead, they hear that the new emperor has finally agreed to hold a wedding.

At the wedding ceremony, they discover to their horror that the new empress on the golden steps is the very “daughter-in-law” they abandoned.

Bonus scene:

The Duke’s second son thinks that a family like his is a blessing for the Ji family to marry into.

Later, seeing his male wife Ji Rongjing’s exquisite looks and gentle nature, he’s even more pleased.

But after handing Ji Rongjing over, he regrets it. He goes mad with the desire to take his little wife back.

When he sees Ji Rongjing, he asks urgently, “Were you forced into this?”

Ji Rongjing takes a step back and is just shaking his head when a warm embrace closes around him from behind.

The new emperor pulls him into his arms and says provocatively:

“What you can’t give him, I can.”

Before You Read:

1. An instinct-driven country bumpkin bottom x a hypocritical, ghostly crown prince top. They are each other’s only one, body and soul.

2. The bottom has no feelings for his first husband. Includes some ‘the emperor steals a minister’s wife’ plot elements.

3. There will be a male supporting character with a one-sided crush.

4. Working hard to update daily.

Coming soon: The Green-Thumbed Straight Man Becomes a Husband Raising a Child. Blurb:

Mei Yuejin, an agricultural university student nicknamed for having an innate wood spirit root, transmigrates. When he opens his eyes, there’s a one-year-old child beside him!

After learning that he’s a husband who can give birth, and that the child beside him is his own...

Mei Yuejin: “…I want to die.”

But after looking at his dirt-poor home and hearing his stomach rumble, he sighs

He should at least have a full meal before he dies.

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Fortunately, his special constitution has come with him. Whatever he plants grows.

The spindly cotton plants produce twice the yield;

The struggling rice crop grows more ears of grain;

And seeds from foreign lands that no one else recognizes sprout into healthy shoots in his hands.

To deal with troublesome relatives and protect himself and his child, he specially hires a young bodyguard.

Why is the bodyguard’s gaze getting stranger and stranger...

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The young general Wei Zheng is framed by treacherous men and ends up stranded in the countryside. He thinks he’ll spend the rest of his life there, but a few years later, he makes his return and rises to power across the realm.

Someone asks him why.

He replies: “My husband wants the biggest field there is.”

Theme: If you persevere, you’ll eventually see hope.