Springtime Hidden in Her Heart

[A sly spy who loves acting and pretending to be weak x an innocent, lovesick young general] [Love and hate, taking by force]

1.

She is a princess of a fallen kingdom, and also the spy Yuan Shisan.

To survive the curse, she pulls out all the stops to secure a marriage alliance with the prestigious Xie family of Hedong.

But on her wedding night, she discovers that her husband suffers from a hidden ailment. Later, he even pushes her to find another man to father a child.

That night, she is tricked into a ruined Taoist temple. Dazed, with a thin veil covering her eyes, she spends a passionate night with a stranger.

A month later, she is found to be pregnant.

The entire marquis's residence celebrates, but one person cannot be happy.

One night, tung blossoms drift down as the wind blows beneath the willows.

When no one is around, a shadow slips in through the window.

Pregnancy is hard. Seeing her suffer from morning sickness, the shadow sets aside his usual arrogance and gently coaxes her: "Daddy's here. Stop tormenting Mommy."

She stares, utterly bewildered, at the third young master of the Xie family as he strokes her slightly rounded belly.

2.

On the surface, Xie Hezheng, the third young master of the Xie clan, is elegant and refined. In truth, he is vindictive and ruthless, a corrupt official feared by all.

Rumor has it that he has no interest in women and knows nothing of tenderness. He once ordered a young thief, who didn't know her place, to be whipped a full hundred times.

Yet strangely, ever since Miss Lin entered the household, he seems to wander in a dream every day. Whenever he comes to his senses, there are always traces of red lipstick on him.

3.

In the third year of Xuanhe, the Xie clan's mighty house collapsed overnight.

Was it because the second madam of the household was a spy from an enemy kingdom?

Xie Hezheng refused to believe it, until he saw Jincan's swollen belly become flat.

When the truth came to light, he hid away both the longevity lock he had bought for the child and his tears. "Did you deliberately seduce me?"

"Was our child just a tool for your revenge?"

The usually gentle, sweet girl looked at him with icy eyes.

His eyes blurred with tears. "Then could you hold me? You never even held me properly..."

But his pathetic pleading earned him a slap, which shattered him completely.

So he brought her a bowl of medicine, crippled her martial arts, and imprisoned her in a sunless attic, leaving her to the company of cold chains.

With red-rimmed eyes, he kissed her wounds inch by inch. "Then die in my cage. Stay here and pay for my child's life."

Reading guide:

1. Both leads are sexually inexperienced! The male lead is pure in both body and heart. Very innocent!

2. The female lead is scheming, a wolf in sheep's clothing. She deceives the male lead about her feelings and has no heart!

3. The female lead gets mildly hurt, while the male lead suffers badly. He is starved of love and doesn't know how to love! The female lead is his only light!

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The Possessive, Brooding Crown Prince Claims Her After She Loses Her Memory

[An amnesiac little darling who is tricked x an obsessive, twisted crown prince]

A groveling pursuit, a forced marriage, and a runaway pregnancy~

Ruan Yang has snow-white skin, dark hair, and a lovely appearance. Unfortunately, she was born a commoner and is simple-minded. Chen Meng became the mistress of a wealthy man, and only then did her life improve.

Ning Xian dotes on her, protects her, and loves her.

They are tender and devoted to one another. Their three years in a little bamboo house are blissfully sweet. After a night of passion, she lies in the warmth of his arms, thinking that if life could go on like this, it would be enough.

But fate is unpredictable. Her husband has been gone for months, and everyone says he has probably met with disaster.

She wipes away her tears, planning to give birth to the child in her womb and then spend the rest of her life as a Buddhist nun, when she hears the old woman beside her say:

"The young master says the Ruan girl is lowborn and unfit to be the child's mother. If she's really pregnant, the child should be given to someone else to raise once it's born."

"Poor thing. She probably doesn't know the young master isn't dead at all. She's occupying another woman's place, and the new madam is coming tomorrow. The young master has been away for so long because he's been hiding from her!"

Ruan Yang refuses to believe it, until the next day, when she sees a young woman slowly step down from her husband's carriage. Only then does she realize that all their promises were empty.

In Ning Xian's eyes, she is lowly and worthless, someone he can throw away once he's tired of her.

She swallows back the tears welling in her eyes. That night, she asks for a potion to end her pregnancy and leaves alone in a carriage.

When she opens her eyes again, Ruan Yang is back in her real home.

After regaining her memories, she learns that she was never a hunter's daughter. She is the daughter of a powerful military governor, whose family commands hundreds of thousands of troops, and whose aunt is the empress.

Love is nothing more than a passing cloud to her, an embellishment to an already beautiful life. The man who once betrayed her no longer matters.

Years pass. Ruan Yang marries her childhood sweetheart as she wished, and lives happily with Lu. Just as she believes she'll spend the rest of her life this way, she catches sight of a pair of cold, terrifying eyes in the corner.

Ning Xian is cold-hearted by nature and never sincere with anyone, least of all the daughter of his mother's killer.

Still, all it takes is a little flirtation from him for the girl's cheeks to flush. But to him, Ruan Yang is just an insignificant passerby in this world. He never considered a future with her.

Yet somehow, he begins to miss the clothes she sews and the pastries she makes. He thinks that since she loves him so much, what's the harm in showing her a little more kindness?

But it's too late. The night before he returns home, he learns that Ruan Yang was framed, and that her carriage plunged into a ravine with her inside.

The capital runs red with blood overnight. Ning Xian orders a search across the land, determined to find her body.

But karma comes for him, and he searches in vain for his wife.

Then one day, as he visits the cemetery to pay respects to his late wife, Yangyang, he catches sight of her on the opposite bank. The young woman is smiling as she wipes another man's sweat, carefully protecting her slightly rounded belly.

Ning Xian stands frozen for a long moment, trembling from head to toe, overwhelmed by jealousy.

On her wedding night, as the red candles burn down, he storms in with soldiers and abducts Ruan Yang, forcing her groom to watch as he spends a wild night with her.

Ruan Yang doesn't yet know that their ill-fated bond is only just beginning, and that this madman will become a cage she can never escape for the rest of her life.

Reading guide:

1. Male lead is sexually inexperienced and pure in body and heart. The blurb contains misunderstandings.

2. The female lead has a beloved white moonlight.

3. Before regaining her memories, the female lead relies on the male lead. Later, she only wants to run away and won't soften toward him.

4. Groveling pursuit in the first half, then he resorts to taking her by force when he fails to win her back.

Theme: Be the leading lady of your own life.