Mu Zhaozhao

- Delicate, pampered princess x cold, ascetic minister

Princess Zhaozhao is beautiful and charming, adored by everyone. The one person she just cannot get along with is Xie Wang.

Xie Wang rose to a high position at a young age. He always wears a face as cold as ice, has a cold temperament and a sharp tongue. His only redeeming quality is that he is rather handsome.

Zhaozhao has always hated him.

The newly crowned top scholar is handsome and debonair, learned, and very much to Zhaozhao's liking. Since it is currently all the rage to snatch up a newly appointed scholar as a husband, Zhaozhao is itching to join in. She orders her people to seize the third-place graduate and make him her consort.

By a twist of fate, her subordinates drug Xie Wang and send him into the palace instead.

Just as Zhaozhao is about to have them send Xie Wang away, a friend suddenly offers her a suggestion: Haven't you always hated Xie Wang? Why not take this opportunity to teach him a lesson?

Taking her friend's advice, Zhaozhao says to Xie Wang first thing the next morning, "Xie Wang, you must take responsibility for me."

She only wants to scare him and see the look of horror on his face.

At last, even Xie Wang's icy face shows some expression. He seems surprised that something like this could have happened. He stares straight at Zhaozhao, and she nervously stares back.

A moment later, Xie Wang says, "I will ask His Majesty for your hand in marriage."

Zhaozhao has no intention of marrying him. She refuses indignantly, comes up with all kinds of excuses, and drives him out.

After that, Zhaozhao keeps a low profile for a while. When she hears that the top scholar is still unmarried, she is tempted again and attends a polo match for his sake.

Unexpectedly, Xie Wang is there too. In full view of everyone, he blocks her path with a gloomy expression.

Remembering that her lie from last time has been exposed, Zhaozhao is on edge. She is just trying to think of an excuse when the handsome man with the icy face says something shocking: "Your Highness, I am carrying your child. You must take responsibility for me."

Zhaozhao: ???

Do you even hear what kind of nonsense you're saying?

The commotion grows so great that even her father and mother are alerted.

Xie Wang, expressionless, explains his situation to the emperor: "I have lost my chastity and do not wish to live. I beg Your Majesty to decide what should be done."

Zhaozhao: …

Zhaozhao wants to explain that she and Xie Wang are completely innocent.

But her parents glance at Xie Wang, then at their own little princess, sigh meaningfully, and immediately issue an imperial decree granting them a marriage.

On their wedding night, Zhaozhao cries in dismay and points at Xie Wang. "You, you, you are just getting back at me!"

Xie Wang catches her slender, fair wrist and pulls her into his arms. His voice is gentler than it has ever been: "Zhaozhao, I have always admired you."

- No male-pregnancy or matriarchal-world elements

- 1v1, both leads' first times, a sweet little romance

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Two Spring Breezes

Li Wangqiu is a noble Grand Princess. In her youth, she was spoiled and headstrong, and would use every means possible to get whatever she wanted.

Pei Shen was no exception.

She liked Pei Shen, but no matter how she expressed her affection or tried to win him over, he always looked at her with disgust. She had little patience, so she resorted to taking him by force.

Li Wangqiu kept Pei Shen confined in her princess's residence. She got his body, but not his heart. Pei Shen was proud and held grudges. He hated her so much that he wanted to destroy her kingdom.

When the kingdom fell, she saw his cold, hate-filled eyes through the flames.

Li Wangqiu sighed. Just before losing consciousness, she saw Pei Shen running toward her.

When she opened her eyes again, Li Wangqiu was seventeen once more, and Pei Shen had been drugged and sent to her.

His phoenix eyes were red, misty with tears as he stared at her.

Tsk, what a tempting sight.

But remembering what had happened in her previous life, Li Wangqiu decided she could not make the same mistakes again. She got up to leave and ordered someone to escort Pei Shen away.

Pei Shen stopped her. He gazed at her pitifully with those red-rimmed phoenix eyes, clutching her skirt so tightly his fingers turned white. "Don't go... Please..."

Li Wangqiu: ...

What kind of drug is this? Does it make a person's head go all fuzzy?

Everyone said Pei Shen hated Li Wangqiu, and Pei Shen thought so too. But when she died in his arms, he discovered that his own heart seemed to die with her.

It turned out he did not hate her. He only hated how little she loved him.

Fortunately, Heaven took pity on him and let him live another life.

He looked at the cup of drugged wine and drank it without hesitation. He wanted to return to her side, but he never expected that she would no longer want him.

He would not allow it. She must love him, and only him.

- 1v1, both leads' first times

Theme: Keep your feet on the ground and build a better future together.