Please add this to your collection. It's a sweet romance, and it will get steamy.
Chun Hua's elder brother-in-law died, leaving behind a young and beautiful widow. Her mother-in-law demanded that Chun Hua's husband take on a second branch of the family as well.
Pregnant Chun Hua was tied up and locked in a room. They planned to let her out only after the marriage had been consummated.
Chun Hua did resist for a whole night. Only when the gag was ripped from her mouth did she scream herself hoarse: “He's sterile! The child I'm carrying isn't even his, and he knows it!”
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After marrying into the Marquis's household, Chun Hua was bullied because she couldn't have children. The day her husband revealed his affliction, he stammered that she should find a man outside the household to father a child so he could claim the family fortune.
After a long search, Chun Hua met a military champion, all bulging muscles and powerful thighs, clearly healthy and likely to conceive a child with ease. Chun Hua did everything she could to tempt and ensnare him, and only after tremendous effort did she finally get him into bed.
The man, new to the pleasures of the bedchamber, was soon unable to tear himself away. Holding Chun Hua by her shoulders, slick with sweat, he sketched out their future. Chun Hua was faintly moved, but her husband caught her and dragged her back to the Marquis's household, forcing her to keep quiet.
After divorcing her husband, Chun Hua went to the capital to find her child's father. She heard that the military champion had become a favorite at court and was waiting along the route he took after court. When he appeared, she grabbed at him in the middle of the street, forgetting to look closely at his clothes. He wasn't wearing a military uniform, but imperial robes.
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While traveling incognito, Lu Shen was unexpectedly seduced, body and soul, by a woman. Back in the capital, his anger only grew, and he sent his personal guards to search for her and bring her in.
Just then, the woman suddenly appeared, accusing him in the street of being heartless and dishonorable and of defiling an innocent woman. She tried to drag him to the Jingzhao Prefecture to report him.
Once Chun Hua had calmed down, Lu Shen offered her one way out: execution at the marketplace.
Terrified, Chun Hua threw herself into Lu Shen's arms and sobbed that she had run away because his stamina was too much for her to bear.
Annoyed by all the noise, Lu Shen sent Chun Hua into the imperial harem so he wouldn't have to see her.
But he couldn't resist sneaking in to visit her in the middle of the night, ordering the palace attendants to ensure a safe delivery and the well-being of both mother and child.
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Pei Han remarried his widowed sister-in-law. Knowing full well that she was secretly sleeping with the household's servant day and night, he could do nothing about it. Gradually, he began to miss how good Chun Hua had been to him.
While in the capital for the imperial examinations, he ran into Chun Hua taking her child on a spring outing and earnestly urged her to rekindle their relationship.
As he spoke, a mass of black-armored imperial guards surrounded them. Pei Han broke into a cold sweat as he watched the emperor, wearing a crown with hanging beads, lift up his “son.”
Lu Shen asked Chun Hua, “An acquaintance?”
Chun Hua: “...I don't know him.”
A bewitching beauty who knows how to ensnare people * a scheming emperor
A child conceived with another man, pretending to be in love while raising a child, the ex-husband's family gets their comeuppance
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