A Pearl Folded and Sent to the Moon

[The heroine fakes her death and runs away while pregnant + the hero pursues his wife and suffers for it]

Yunzhu was a princess from a foreign tribe.

At sixteen, she was sent to the Central Plains as part of a political marriage between her clan and the Central Plains, becoming the Crown Prince of Prince Huan's consort.

She couldn't say she was unhappy during her years at Prince Huan's manor. There were plenty of fun things to do in the Central Plains, and the Crown Prince treated her with courtesy.

But she couldn't say she was happy, either, because aside from the Crown Prince, hardly anyone in the manor treated her with genuine kindness.

Because she was a woman from a foreign tribe and had been married to the Crown Prince of Prince Huan, it meant the emperor of the Central Plains had no intention of passing the throne to Prince Huan's branch of the family.

After all, no foreign woman had ever become crown princess or empress in the Central Plains.

Fortunately, Yunzhu was good at looking on the bright side. They might not like her, but at least her husband was decent. Nobody at the manor wanted to befriend her, but she had a few sincere friends outside its walls.

Everything changed on the day she turned eighteen.

That day, Yunzhu had just finished getting dressed and was about to go meet a friend. Before leaving, she wanted to find her husband and ask if he would come along.

She had made great progress learning to read and write the Central Plains script, and knew far more characters than before. She wanted to show off her progress to him and their friends.

But just as she reached the door of his study, she heard an advisor speaking inside.

He was urging her husband, "Only if the Crown Princess is gone and the Crown Prince takes another wife can Prince Huan's manor have a chance at the throne! Otherwise, nobody will be willing to support the Crown Prince!"

Were they... discussing killing her?

Yunzhu stood outside the door, and in an instant, a chill washed over her from head to toe.

She waited for her husband's answer.

She thought he would refuse, wouldn't he? They weren't in love, but their life together had been quite good. They...

"Let me think about it."

Before she could finish her thought, she heard her husband answer.

This time, Yunzhu's hopes and expectations finally vanished for good.

She couldn't even remember how she had made it back to her room that day.

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Xiao Mingzhang, the Crown Prince of Prince Huan, had been a well-read and noble young man since childhood. From the moment he was born, he was destined to become the unquestioned heir of Prince Huan's manor.

The only unexpected turn in his life was being ordered by imperial decree to marry a princess from a foreign tribe.

The emperor was growing old, and Prince Huan, one of his five sons, had originally intended to contend for the throne.

But when the imperial edict announcing the marriage arrived, Prince Huan's manor was plunged into despair. Advisors left, and their supporters dwindled.

In the two years after the wedding, people had suggested to Xiao Mingzhang more than once that only if his Crown Princess died would Prince Huan's manor have a better chance of claiming the throne.

At first, Xiao Mingzhang let such talk go in one ear and out the other.

He did want to become crown prince, but he wouldn't trade an innocent woman's life for political power.

Besides, his Crown Princess... wasn't all that unpleasant.

Until the drought struck the land, the people starved and were forced to wander in search of food, and the emperor's chosen heir proved to be no paragon of virtue.

His father told him earnestly, "Only by ascending the highest throne can we truly protect everyone we want to protect. This vast realm, this dynasty, depends on its people. To gain, we must give. We must give before we can gain."

For the first time, Xiao Mingzhang wavered in his resolve...

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Three years after leaving Prince Huan's manor, Yunzhu saw Xiao Mingzhang again in a small town on the edge of the desert.

By then, she could write many characters in the Central Plains script and had become a female instructor, teaching people to ride horses and shoot arrows.

She encountered Xiao Mingzhang on horseback.

Seeing him standing before her with red eyes, she asked, "Are you about to become crown prince now, Xiao Mingzhang?"

Xiao Mingzhang didn't answer. He simply held out his hand to her, stubbornly. "Yunzhu, let's go home."

#Hero pursues his wife; heroine fakes her death and runs away while pregnant

#One-on-one, happy ending

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---Promoting my next sweet romance---

The Crown Prince and Crown Princess Were Born to Clash

Wang Luyi was the fourth daughter of the chancellor's household, a lady of distinguished family and impeccable manners, beautiful and the model for all the noble young women of the capital.

At eighteen, she was personally chosen by the empress to become the Crown Princess.

Everyone said it was a perfect match. Only the Crown Prince, Xu Yuxing, knew the truth: What kind of perfect match was this? Fourth Miss Wang had been a fierce, unruly brat since childhood, nothing like the gentle lady people described. If his mother had arranged this marriage for him, he was doomed!

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Ever since she was young, Wang Luyi had been determined to become the perfect example of a well-bred young lady, the foremost among the noble women of the capital.

Though she had studied martial arts with a master for years, she always pretended to be delicate in public. Though many things offended her, she always acted calm and gentle in front of others.

Nobody knew what she was really capable of, or how decisive and fierce she could be. Her disguise was so perfect that she had fooled nearly everyone in the capital, except one person...

After their wedding, Wang Luyi stood before the Crown Prince, who was clinging to a bedpost, holding a feather duster. Though her almond-shaped eyes were smiling warmly, her words were cold and terrifying: "Your Highness, should I beat you first and then send you off to study, or will you go study right now?"

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When they first got married, Crown Prince Xu Yuxing wished he could stay as far away from his Crown Princess as possible. He didn't want the fake smiling tiger anywhere near him.

But later, even he couldn't have imagined that he would take her hand himself and squeeze close to her, saying, "Huaihuai, keep me in line. Please, keep me in line!"

#An impossibly sweet romance

#A ruthless Crown Princess x a henpecked Crown Prince

#Huaihuai is the heroine's nickname, from the Book of Songs: "Her song rings clear in the darkness, and the gentleman finds peace."

Blurb written on 2025/08/18

Theme: Give sincerity in return for sincerity