Original title: Stealing Jade and Scent
Meng Yexin is the personal maid of the Third Prince.
With bright eyes, pearly teeth, and a bewitching charm, she has eyes only for her master.
The Third Prince promises that if she finds evidence that the Second Prince is conspiring with his faction, he will take her as a concubine.
The Second Prince is gentle and handsome, the man of countless young women's dreams.
He falls for Meng Yexin at first sight and takes her as a concubine, showering her with gold and jewels just to win her smile. From then on, the Second Prince becomes her husband.
They share a bed, but not the same dreams.
At last, while her husband is away, Meng Yexin helps the Third Prince bring him down.
Meng Yexin is imprisoned along with the Second Prince's household. It is later said that her husband was attacked by bandits and fell off a cliff to his death.
At that point, the Third Prince turns on her, leaving her to die in prison while he marries someone else.
So Meng Yexin escapes.
When she has nowhere to go, her late husband's close friend finds her and gives her a letter.
It turns out that her husband knew he might never return, and had already arranged everything so she could go south and stay away from the turmoil.
Meng Yexin thinks that her late husband was a million times better than the Third Prince.
It was her fault. She betrayed her husband and let him die after being framed.
She won't leave. She swears to avenge her husband!
Until one day, the supposedly dead Second Prince returns.
He sees Meng Yexin leaning against his close friend's chest, her eyes lowered as she embroiders a sachet for her own enemy.
“My wife really is quite something.”
#She only loves the husband who treats her well. It doesn't matter who that husband is
#After her husband fakes his death, his enemy, his close friend, and his brother all want to marry me
Reader's guide:
1. Female lead is experienced; male lead is a virgin
2. Struggle for the throne + melodrama + a battle of suitors + a husband chasing his wife to the crematorium
3. Everyone is a hypocrite with double standards!
4. This story has at least three unhinged people at all times
5. Only three characters appear in the blurb,
A bewitching fake heiress, down on her luck and living away from home X a cold and sinister Second Prince X a Third Prince who feigns affection but is sincere X a gentle and refined top scholar X a spirited young general (not ranked in any particular order)
Theme: I decide my own fate