Cold Spring

Jian Chun was an orphan. Ji Minghan had found her among a pile of corpses and brought her back.

Ji Minghan taught her to read and write and trained her in martial arts. He bought her new clothes and gave her the feeling of having a home.

Jian Chun had thought she was different to Ji Minghan. Who could have guessed that at a single word from the Crown Prince, he would so easily give her away?

Back then, he had promised her that once he ascended the throne, he would personally bring her back and make her his empress!

Later, word reached her from the palace that the new emperor had ascended the throne. She waited expectantly, day after day, as the wintersweet blossoms in the courtyard bloomed and withered.

At last, she received the sword he plunged into her heart with his own hand.

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Because his mother was of low status, Ji Minghan was the least favored prince in Mingdu.

As a child, he had watched his birth mother be beaten to death, yet still had to address the woman responsible as Empress Dowager.

To become powerful enough to protect the person he loved, Ji Minghan endured humiliation and plotted every step, all to ascend the throne and become the most powerful man in the land.

Of course, he succeeded.

Yet not long after he took the throne, rumors suddenly spread among the people that Jian Chun was a calamity of a consort. The officials petitioned Ji Minghan to execute her!

With no other choice, Ji Minghan came up with a plan to fake his death...

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One day, Jian Chun awoke reborn on the very day Ji Minghan had found her among the corpses.

To get revenge on Ji Minghan, Jian Chun pretended to be kind to him and deliberately seduced him, all to make him fall in love with her. In secret, though, she built up her own power, waiting for the Crown Prince to ask for her.

But before the Crown Prince could say a word, Ji Minghan grabbed her hand first and whispered, "Chun'er, don't go. In this life, I only want you!"

A little guide for readers:

1. Happy ending, both are reborn, misunderstandings arise but will be resolved.

2. The heroine suffers early on, and the hero later. This story is all about hurting each other.

Theme: The story of two hedgehogs seeking warmth from each other while also hurting each other