Sleeping Beneath the Pear Blossoms

Several days after his wedding, Prince Jing finally shared a bed with his wife.

That night, his wife furrowed her brows, her voice breaking into soft, tender sounds that seemed to hold back some pain. Her voice was unlike what he was used to.

He was blind and could not see her face.

After that, whenever she made those husky, muffled sounds at night, he urged her to let go.

But he was blind, not deaf.

His wife's voice was wrong.

So many things about her were wrong.

Several months later, by a twist of fate, he regained his sight.

His beloved wife, who had spent seven days abstaining and praying to Buddha, returned home at the same time.

That night, his wife sat shyly on the eastern bed in a gown of pale moon-white gauze, her eyes full of affection and her manner demure and sweet.

Prince Jing's fingers parted the bed curtains. He looked at the stranger before him and did not move. His taut knuckles had turned pale.

If the woman before him was the wife he'd exchanged wedding vows with, who was the wife he'd shared his bed with night after night?

*

Prince Jing visits his father-in-law's home to celebrate his birthday.

His wife's family welcomes him warmly. Only his wife's younger sister cannot look him in the eye and tries to flee in a panic.

But her slender, graceful brows, her delicate nose with its fine, narrow bridge, and her alluring, softly pursed red lips are exactly as he remembers them from countless dark nights when he'd gripped her waist and roughly pressed his fingertips into her flesh...

Prince Jing narrows his phoenix eyes and deliberately adjusts the gold-and-jade belt at his waist with his long fingers.

His sister-in-law's legs nearly give way.

Prince Jing watches her guilty reaction with quiet amusement, his gaze driving her back to a corner. Then, in the next instant, his eyes lock on her.

Hidden beneath the loose front of her broad pear-blossom-white robe, her belly is already beginning to swell...

[Reader advisory]

1. The male lead is pure in body and heart and only loves the heroine. He's a jerk early on, and the romance involves coercion.

2. There are special circumstances surrounding the sister's consummation.

3. There is no miscarriage, and no child is harmed. The baby mentioned in the blurb is born safely.

Blurb for the upcoming novel Dreaming with Begonias:

Everyone knows that County Lady Wanfu and the young emperor Yuan Su are childhood enemies who can't stand each other and see red whenever they meet.

But no one knows that in their dreams, the two have been sharing a bed and making love for three whole years.

In her dreams, the young emperor is handsome and mature, gentle and sexy. Chi Zhaoying adores him.

In his dreams, Wanfu is charming and sweet, soft and clingy. Yuan Su is intoxicated by her.

When they wake and meet in the daytime, they go right back to trying to destroy each other.

He ruins her marriage prospects; she ruins his reputation.

*

Yuan Su has been having that strange dream for a long time.

In the dream, Wanfu is his wife, begging him every day to make love to her until they are both spent.

Yuan Su is horrified. The deepest secret he's kept hidden since his youth cannot escape him in his dreams.

He doesn't hate County Lady Wanfu. For a long time, he's been secretly and shamefully coveting her.

The dream's world slowly becomes clear.

In her previous life, she loved someone else and married the Marquis of Huaiyang. Later, her husband grew tired of her and conspired with his beloved concubine to poison her. Yuan Su flew into a rage, killed the Marquis of Huaiyang, and, branded a villain, took his minister's wife for himself. He stayed with her for three years, but in the end, he still couldn't keep her.

In this life, Yuan Su resolves not to let her go again. He'll strike first and ruin her chances of marriage.

But who would have guessed that the tipsy young lady would already be melting into his arms, full of affection? “Brother Su, we've only called for the bathwater once tonight.”

1. Both leads are virgins, both are reborn, and the story is sweet.

2. From enemies to mutual devotion. Childhood sweethearts beat the unexpected rival.

3. Timeline: In her previous life, the heroine married a scumbag. Later, his concubine poisoned her, leaving her only three years to live. The hero took her by force. During their three years together, she fell in love with him, then died and was reborn. The story begins after she is reborn.

Theme: Saving each other