After Saving the Violent Crown Prince (Reborn)

The Crown Prince, Yan Huaixu, was gentle as jade and exceptionally handsome, the heir to the Eastern Palace praised by everyone.

Yet few knew that he suffered from a chronic illness. On rainy nights, he would lose his senses, growing agitated and crazed like a bloodthirsty beast.

At such times, only the palace maid Pei Yuan could approach him with ease. The fragrance on her body could gradually calm him down. As time passed, Yan Huaixu found he could not sleep at all without her company.

They lay together in the same bed. He both craved her scent and ordered her to keep his secret, threatening to have her head cut off if she did not.

No matter how cruelly Yan Huaixu threatened her, Pei Yuan never showed the slightest fear or hesitation. She remained gentle and considerate.

"I will always stay by Your Highness's side." That was what she said when Yan Huaixu looked at her with suspicion.

He thought that if she continued to be so obedient and proper, he might grant her a title. Even after he learned that Pei Yuan had her own agenda, he still made exception after exception for her.

But Yan Huaixu never expected Pei Yuan to break her promise in the end.

She disappeared on the eve of his coronation.

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Pei Yuan was reborn.

In her previous life, she had been made into a pawn of the Fifth Prince, the Crown Prince's sworn enemy, against her will. She was forced to drug the Crown Prince and then scheme to make Yan Huaixu unable to leave her.

In the end, however, the Crown Prince saw through the plot and dealt with the Fifth Prince's faction with an iron hand. Pei Yuan died in the chaos of the battle.

When she opened her eyes again, she found herself back in the Eastern Palace, and Yan Huaixu had already been drugged.

With no other choice, Pei Yuan carefully kept the secret while pretending to obey and finding every way to stall. She never carried out the Fifth Prince's orders again.

But the palace coup from her previous life still came to pass. Once the truth was revealed, the thought of Yan Huaixu's ruthless methods made Pei Yuan tremble with fear. She resolved not to sit around and wait for death.

So she carefully planned a great fire, escaped the palace in the confusion, and settled in a small town a thousand miles away.

Months passed without anything out of the ordinary, and Pei Yuan finally breathed a sigh of relief.

But on this day, rain poured from the sky, dark as ink. When she returned from an outing, she found the courtyard gate standing open. A man dressed in black stood there, his expression icy and his gaze sinister.

"Yuanyuan." He advanced step by step, a cold smile curling his lips. "Tonight will be another rainy night."

"Are you going to run away again?"

*Reader's Guide:

1. One-on-one romance, both leads have had no other partners.

2. The female lead is reborn.

3. The female lead's death in her previous life had nothing to do with the male lead. Even after learning the truth, he still loves her deeply.

4. The male lead is volatile, violent, and cruel early on, but later becomes completely lovesick. The female lead is the only one who can tame him.

5. Set in a fictional world, with many original details. Please don't nitpick historical accuracy.

Theme: Happiness must be created for yourself.