A Springtime Reverie

[Aloof Chancellor Like a Flower on a High Peak x Resilient, Brave Little Wildflower]

Xu Qingyi has only two wishes:

To avenge her clan, and then... sleep with Rong Hui.

Two years ago, the Xu family was falsely accused, and the entire clan was executed. To avenge them, Xu Qingyi infiltrated the Gu household as a servant, vowing to bring the family to ruin.

The Gu family's eldest young lady was born to wealth and privilege, yet there was only one person before whom she would lower herself. On the young lady's birthday, Xu Qingyi suddenly realized that the person she loved looked oddly familiar.

Taking a closer look, she discovered he was the man she had saved.

And her friend's own cousin.

Rong Hui, Prince of the Imperial Clan, was a distinguished statesman, peerless in the capital. People of the time called him "a man seen once in a century." Rong Hui was perfect in every way, except for one thing

The first time Xu Qingyi confessed her feelings, he weakly propped himself up on the bed. "I think of you only as my benefactor, and nothing more."

The second time, he stood tall and graceful as a jade mountain, lowering his head to say, "I think of you only as a younger sister. That's all."

Fine. If she couldn't have him, she'd pretend none of it had happened.

But when the Gu family's eldest daughter's marriage to Rong Hui seemed to be taking shape, Xu Qingyi showed up at his private residence with an arrow wound, putting on a clumsy beauty's seduction.

She wanted his body and his heart, as well as his power.

Though she'd trained him into a rather good lover, not having his heart still left something to be desired.

So, after their tryst, once the deed was done, she made a swift getaway

"My cousin rejected me three times. If I stay any longer, I'll be shameless."

Rong Hui had a dream in which he was almost obsessively devoted to the woman who had saved his life.

He sneered coldly at the thought.

Only after bringing down the Gu family, when the woman walked away without looking back and he saw her laughing sweetly with his younger cousin, did Rong Hui realize how deeply this affair had gotten under his skin.

"I was wrong. Don't be with him."

Little scene:

Xu Qingyi thought Rong Hui was so awkward. He'd barely touched her fingers before immediately washing his hands.

When she was wounded by an arrow and the two of them were alone, he even pulled his robe closed so she couldn't look.

Rong Hui: She likes me, and she's already coveting my body. If I let her look, she'll get the wrong idea.

Xu Qingyi: "Don't be shy. When I saved you, I saw every part of you except that place."

Reader's Guide:

1. Happy ending, single-couple romance.

2. Entirely fictional setting, romance-focused.

3. The author will fix bugs as they write.

Theme: I'm going to defy fate and change my life.