The Fragrant Mist Dampens Her Cloud-Like Hair

So the dignified Crown Prince likes seductive beauties after all.

A self-restrained, principled Crown Prince x a gorgeous, voluptuous Crown Princess

Serialized novel: After the Emperor Fell in Love at First Sight

Possessive pursuit | Older woman and younger man | Female lead is not a virgin, male lead is | The Emperor pursues his wife after marriage

Emperor Pei Chengjue was young and knew nothing of love.

One day, he met Qiao Tang outside the palace. Qiao Tang was as beautiful as a hibiscus, smiling sweetly. He was momentarily entranced and summoned her to the palace. "I just want to talk to you, Sister."

Qiao Tang: "..."

How shameless, making a forced abduction sound so innocent.

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Qiao Tang had no interest in the Emperor, but he kept her in the palace against her will.

When the Empress Dowager learned that she had been married before, she disliked her, but promised to let her leave the palace once Pei Chengjue matured and got tired of her.

Hoping to leave as soon as possible, Qiao Tang spent every night teaching Pei Chengjue about love. He experienced every kind of passion, his heart blazing with sincerity. "I love you, Sister. Do you love me?"

Qiao Tang coaxed him: "I do."

Two years passed, and Pei Chengjue was still obsessively demanding her attention. She panicked. Wasn't he supposed to get tired of her?

Then one day, Pei Chengjue heard Qiao Tang's voice outside the window: "Once His Majesty chooses a consort and I leave the palace, perhaps I'll consider you again, my former husband."

A man's voice replied tenderly, "Seems like Tangtang really doesn't love His Majesty."

"If His Majesty hadn't forced me into the palace..."

Pei Chengjue's eyes turned bloodshot. For the first time in his life, he felt the heart-wrenching agony of being deceived, along with hatred.

For several days afterward, Qiao Tang was confined to her chambers.

Pei Chengjue's once fiery eyes were now cold and terrifying. "Since you've already used up everything your former husband taught you, it's my turn to teach you."

The fiercely possessive man was no longer an easy-to-placate young boy. Qiao Tang swallowed the bitter fruit of her own actions, biting her lip and staying silent.

When the palace began discussing the selection of consorts again, Qiao Tang requested permission to leave.

Pei Chengjue's thin lips curled scornfully. "Do you think I'll try to keep a woman I've grown tired of?"

On the day of the consort selection, the palace waited from morning until night, but Pei Chengjue never appeared. Instead, in a carriage fleeing the palace, Pei Chengjue held Qiao Tang, dressed in an empress's robes, tightly in his arms. He gently wiped the tears from the corner of her eye. "Don't cry, Sister. From now on, I'll let you keep deceiving me. The more cruelly you deceive me, the more I'll love you."

Reader advisory: Bittersweet, melodramatic romance. A sincere, passionate young man who later turns dark and obsessive x a gentle, clear-eyed beauty. At the start, the heroine is 20 and the hero is 18. The heroine is not a virgin, but the hero is. The hero privately calls the heroine Sister. The heroine still has feelings for her former husband early on, and only falls for the hero midway through!

Completed novels: The Entire Capital Is Begging Her to Return to the Palace and The Entire Capital Is Putting on a Show for Her

Theme: Live life positively