After Being Reborn, the Crown Prince Is Always Jealous

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At the Lantern Festival banquet, Sheng Baozhu fell in love at first sight with the graceful Crown Prince. She did everything she could to marry into the Eastern Palace, only for the new emperor to ascend the throne and exile the Sheng family to Lingnan.

Only then did she understand that it had all been wishful thinking. She died on a spring day in the Eastern Palace, filled with endless regret.

When she awoke from her dream, she was once again Miss Sheng of Chang'an. Sheng Baozhu came to her senses and, from then on, avoided the Crown Prince at all costs.

When Sheng Baozhu died before his eyes in such a brutal way, Li Cunheng finally realized how he felt about her. He prayed to every god and Buddha for just one chance to start over.

When he opened his eyes again, he saw the seventeen-year-old Sheng Baozhu, bright and radiant. He clasped his trembling hands behind his back, wearing a gentle smile he had forced himself to maintain, and met her gaze as she happened to look his way.

Then Sheng Baozhu coolly looked away and turned to chat and laugh with the heir of Marquis Xie.

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As winter began, the news that Miss Sheng was to be married spread throughout Chang'an.

But on the eve of the wedding, the bride's wedding dress ended up on the imperial couch in the palace.

Sheng Baozhu, panic-stricken, begged him to let go.

A gold hairpin pierced her heart, and the drops of blood were an even more piercing red than her wedding dress. The once-radiant Crown Prince grasped Sheng Baozhu's hand and smiled, grief-stricken and crazed.

"Let go? Then you might as well kill me."

Cheerful, bright-looking merchant's daughter who knows nothing of poetry x seemingly frail, actually unhinged, jealous, and unloved Crown Prince

[Reader's guide]

1. A fictional setting inspired by the Tang dynasty, but with plenty of original details

2. Both leads are reborn. Romance-focused, with groveling-after-the-breakup and taking-her-by-force tropes; the political intrigue is just for show

3. One-on-one romance, happy ending, a sweet-and-sour little treat

[Blurb for upcoming story, Reborn as the Chancellor's White Moonlight, a groveling-after-the-breakup story]

After her parents died, Mu Xi lived under someone else's roof, careful in every way, and married her cousin Lu Yu as her elders wished.

Everyone said Lu Yu had a mistress, but Mu Xi didn't care. She had nowhere else to go and only wanted them to treat each other with respect and live in peace.

Until one day, news came that Lu Yu had led an army to capture the city and ascended the throne. Mu Xi was forced to take her own life.

Reborn, she returned to the day Lu Yu brought his mistress into the household.

Faced with Lu Yu's cold expression, Mu Xi didn't care at all. Smiling faintly, she said, "I wish you and Cousin-in-law a long life together, full of love and happiness."

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The next day, at a palace banquet, Mu Xi accidentally drank wine laced with an aphrodisiac and stumbled into the arms of the powerful heir of a duke. With tear-filled eyes, she begged him, "My lord, save me."

Pei Xuan looked down at her, and after a long moment, finally nodded.

Later, Lu Yu could only watch as the powerful chancellor stood side by side with a beautifully dressed woman.

Pei Xuan fastened a cloak around Mu Xi, then tossed aside the hairpin Lu Yu had once given her and said softly, "It's worthless. Throw it away."

Mu Xi's eyes curved as she smiled, gentle as autumn waters. "All right."

-

Pei Xuan was a paragon of virtue, a cool and noble heir of a duke, admired by the world as a gentleman.

But he had a secret no one knew.

As he watched the woman who haunted his dreams draw closer, step by step, his heart surged like a stormy sea. Yet he could only remain gentle and distant on the outside, afraid of frightening her away.

Mu Xi thought they could part on good terms. When she heard that the Pei family was to welcome an imperial princess as a bride, she packed her things and planned to leave Chang'an.

At dawn, before her carriage could leave the city, someone stopped it.

The once-gentle, self-possessed Pei Xuan pinned her against the carriage wall and held her close, their cheeks and temples brushing as he murmured tenderly, "Weiwei, save me."

He was a devil in the guise of a gentleman, and only a goddess could save him.

Gentle, alluring beauty x cool, calculating heir

Theme: Break free from hardship and live independently.