After Mistaking the Cool Crown Prince for My Fiancé

My new novel, Mistaking the Heir for My Stand-In for the White Moonlight, is now available. Thanks for your support, and please add it to your collection~~

Blurb:

Orphaned Shen Mi'er makes a living raising silkworms and tending mulberry trees, managing the few acres of farmland her mother left her all by herself.

One day, a handsome young man, gravely injured and unconscious, tumbles into her backyard.

From the keepsake in his arms and the scar on his wrist, Shen Mi'er recognizes him as the boy her elders betrothed her to when they were children.

Her betrothed abandoned her for more than a decade, and Shen Mi'er had planned to deny any connection between them. But when the young man wipes the blood from his face, revealing a stunningly beautiful countenance, and looks at her with a pitiful, forlorn gaze, Shen Mi'er can't help but soften.

The young man is as innocent as a blank sheet of paper when it comes to life experience. Shen Mi'er is always worried someone will take advantage of him, so she has no choice but to devote more of her attention to keeping an eye on him.

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Crown Prince Xie Chen was betrayed by his trusted aide, and his subordinates suffered heavy casualties. He had already resigned himself to death when a farm girl unexpectedly saved him.

The farm girl, Shen Mi'er, mistook him for her betrothed and took devoted care of him.

Xie Chen could tell Shen Mi'er hoped he would return her feelings, but he had been raised from childhood to become the Crown Prince. Upright and self-disciplined, he simply couldn't bring himself to pass himself off as someone else and toy with another person's affections. That would be despicable.

He would remember Shen Mi'er's kindness in saving him. And the silk shop she kept talking about buying, he would purchase it and give it to her along with several times its value.

He and Shen Mi'er were destined to be no more than passersby in each other's lives.

Unexpectedly, in countless lonely, silent nights in the palace, Xie Chen would be haunted by the soft country-accented voice Shen Mi'er used during the busy farming season to ask him to lend a hand, and by the rustling of silkworms eating mulberry leaves in the village silkworm house.

And then there was the old silver anklet Shen Mi'er wore around her fair ankle. More than once, he had wished he could be the reason it jingled.

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The Rong'en Marquis Estate reclaimed the son and daughter who had been lost in the countryside. Overnight, Shen Mi'er went from a farm girl who raised silkworms to a noblewoman from an illustrious family.

At a palace banquet, Shen Mi'er attended with the fiance the Marquis Estate had chosen for her. The pair looked perfectly matched and deeply in love.

The girl who had once smiled so brightly now followed every rule. She bowed to him with flawless propriety. Her clear black-and-white eyes were as limpid as ever as she said:

"Greetings, Your Highness."

On the dais, Crown Prince Xie Chen was as cool and aloof as an immortal, but the jade thumb ring between his long fingers crumbled to dust, and blood streamed down his hand.

Shen Mi'er should have belonged to him.

If he couldn't win her over, then he would take her.

Blurb for the new novel, Mistaking the Heir for My Stand-In for the White Moonlight. Please add it to your collection~

Yu Qizhi became Pei Jing's wife, and everyone in Chang'an said she had married above her station.

Yu Qizhi came from a lowly family and was the illegitimate daughter of a concubine, beneath notice. She had tarnished the Marquis heir's good name, forcing him to marry her.

She faced one hardship after another in the Marquis Estate, while Pei Jing merely watched with cold indifference.

One day, a friend of Pei Jing's came to visit. He glanced at the suggestive bite marks on Pei Jing's wrist and laughed.

"What kind of beauty is your wife, Brother Pei, that you keep her so well hidden? Let the rest of us have a look, too."

Pei Jing replied blandly, "She's just a plaything for the bed, not someone fit to be seen in public."

Her snow-white, delicate neck bowed slightly. Yu Qizhi stood outside the door, her long, slender fingertips scalded bright red by the teacup.

Some time later, Yu Qizhi asked for a divorce. Pei Jing glanced at her unconcernedly and asked why.

She lowered her head meekly. "I can't have children."

"Then have one for me." Pei Jing lifted her chin with a long finger, his expression haughty.

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At a young age, Pei Jing rose to become a fourth-rank commander in the Northern Command's Imperial Guard. In the eyes of the world, he was a brilliant young talent and the most sought-after son-in-law among the great houses.

His new wife, Yu Qizhi, came from a lowly background and had used shameless means to attach herself to him.

But she was beautiful and utterly obedient to him, with both looks and temperament perfectly to his taste.

Even when Yu Qizhi tried to get his attention by asking for a divorce, he found her so foolish that he couldn't help feeling a little fond of her.

Looking at the gentle beauty beside him in bed, Pei Jing thought indifferently that since Yu Qizhi loved him so deeply, there was no harm in keeping her by his side.

Until he realized that his sweet, docile wife, Yu Qizhi, had always been looking past his face at another man.

Blurb for the upcoming novel, Yuzhi. Please add it to your collection~

Yuzhi is a young widow from Dongshui Village. Her beauty draws unwanted attention, but she is timid and weak-willed, an easy target for anyone.

The boldest thing she has ever done is secretly bring home a young man who is gravely injured and unconscious.

For a few taels of silver, her uncle and aunt turn around and try to sell her to a local bully. Heartbroken and resolved to end her life, Yuzhi sobs to the handsome unconscious man:

"When I'm gone, I won't be able to look after you anymore. Sob, please get better soon on your own."

The unconscious man, who had not woken once since Yuzhi brought him home, twitched a finger amid her endless sobbing.

"Damn, you're noisy." He clutched his head, his phoenix eyes slowly opening. "I'll help you kill them all."

A tear hung at the corner of Yuzhi's eye. Still stunned that the man had woken, she stammered and shook her head.

"K-kill them? No, you can't do that."

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Murong Ting, the younger twin son of the Murong family head, was destined to be a blade wielded from the shadows for his family.

Betrayed by his own kin, he lost the use of his legs and fell gravely ill and unconscious.

A weak, useless woman saved him, the very sort of spineless person Murong Ting had always despised.

She didn't know how to fight back when people bullied her, and all she did day after day was cry in front of him.

Murong Ting had no patience for such a feeble, useless woman. He only wanted to recover from his injuries and return to take revenge.

Back then, Murong Ting never imagined that one day he would willingly stay for this little widow.

In a turbulent world, protecting her alone would be enough for him.

Female lead has no prior sexual experience; male lead does. Farming-focused story. The male lead's leg injury will heal.

Theme: Working hard together to grow wealthy and achieve a comfortable life