After the Wedding That Was Meant to Bring Good Fortune, She Ran Off Pregnant

Marriage first, love later x healing each other

Gentle, fatherly type x resilient little ray of sunshine

Pei Zeyu, heir to the Prince of Annan, is exceptionally talented and handsome as a jade carving.

Unfortunately, just as he comes of age, he develops a chronic illness and is confined to bed for years.

The imperial physicians declare that he will not live past sixteen.

Years pass, but the Prince of Annan's household still cannot find a cure for his illness. In the end, they somehow learn of a shaman's method to bring good fortune through marriage, and buy a young woman from a remote mountain village.

Chen Zhaoying knows that marrying into a powerful household will not be easy. Sure enough, the day after the wedding, the Princess of Annan summons her.

“Within a year, whatever means you use, you must give my son a child. Otherwise, you know what the consequences will be.”

Chen Zhaoying bows her head and agrees. From then on, she follows Pei Zeyu around all day, chattering like a little tail.

Every so often, she tests the waters with a question:

“Young Master, Young Master, when are we going to consummate our marriage?”

“...”

She tries everything she can think of, but he never grants her a single night of affection. With the deadline approaching, she fears the Princess will make things difficult for her and prepares to run away with a country boy from her village. But one night, someone pins her beneath him.

Pei Zeyu's voice is hoarse as he softly comforts the little girl trembling in his arms, though he does not stop moving.

“Zhaoniang, Zhaoniang... Let's make a life together, all right?”

After that night, Pei Zeyu's chronic illness gradually heals, while the farm girl Chen Zhaoying has become someone from a completely different world.

The emperor even issues a decree ordering him to marry a princess and become her consort.

Just after Pei Zeyu firmly refuses the marriage, a sudden message arrives from the residence: Madam has run away, and before leaving, she was diagnosed as pregnant.

The servants of the Prince of Annan's household all witness the usually warm and gracious heir turn dark-faced for the first time upon hearing the news.

She ran away with his child in her belly, with some other man! Does she think he's useless? But he's already recovered!

(Young Master Pei: So unfair!)

Theme: Love her, cherish her, respect her