After Mistakenly Raising the Crown Prince as My Secret Lover

[A beautiful schemer who only dares to think wicked thoughts but never act on them x a prince who is a gentleman in public and a lunatic in private]

Cen Wan often hated herself for being timid and cowardly, with a face as lovely as a jade flower and a heart as venomous as a snake’s.

She was full of wicked ideas, but lacked the nerve to act on them. She’d never managed to do a single truly bad thing, and could only dismember everyone equally in her imagination and occasionally stick pins in a little doll.

After being reborn, Cen Wan decided to do something big: she would murder her husband!

But she accidentally killed the wrong person.

When she saw his face clearly, she was nearly scared out of her wits. In a panic, she decided to go all the way. With trembling hands, she dragged him toward the edge of a cliff, hoping to dispose of the body, but he grabbed her by the wrist.

Cen Wan was terrified out of her mind. A weak voice sounded: “Thank you, young lady, for saving me. I will repay this life-saving kindness a thousandfold someday.”

She froze. This attendant of the Crown Prince’s didn’t seem very bright. It looked like he thought she had saved his life... An idea stirred in her heart.

The handsome attendant, barely clinging to life, was secretly carried into Cen Wan’s private residence. He became the audience and target for all her malicious schemes.

Taking advantage of her status as his “savior,” Cen Wan beat him, cursed him, and humiliated him as she pleased. When the mood struck, she would also comfort him, pity him, and kiss him. Until one day, he suddenly disappeared.

It’s over. Soon everyone in the capital will know that the obedient, respectful young mistress of the Changsheng Marquis’s residence is actually a wicked woman... Cen Wan was anxious, but tried to console herself: even his master, the Crown Prince, had been assassinated. What trouble could one lowly attendant cause?

But then the Crown Prince returned to the capital.

That night, a large hand gripped her waist, and a hot, familiar breath brushed her trembling neck.

“My lady, didn’t you say you’d kill your husband, give me a title, and never make me your secret lover again? Then why did you stroll arm in arm with him at the Shangsi Festival, looking more loving than ever? Have you chosen your husband and cast me aside? My lady, you truly have a cruel heart.”

Cen Wan slapped him.

“Impudent! Who gave you the nerve to speak to me like that?”

She was furious. The wretch had seen his master come back from the dead and immediately started throwing his weight around. She was also terrified: if he exposed her true nature, how could she possibly survive?

But before she could silence him for good, she saw him at a palace banquet.

Dressed in a python robe and wearing a golden crown, he was surrounded by admirers and seemed utterly untouchable.

That face was peerlessly handsome. She had slapped, pinched, kissed, and bitten it countless times. Now, faint teeth marks from the fierce bite she’d given him the night before still remained on his face, white as jade.

“Why does the young mistress of the Changsheng Marquis’s residence look so alarmed? Someone, bring her a seat.”

His voice rang through the hall, tinged with amusement. Suspicious, envious, and curious gazes all fell on her.

Cen Wan collapsed to the floor, trembling as she propped herself up on weak knees. Her vision went dark. She was finished!

Blurb revised on November 15, 2024

Theme: Cherish the person in front of you