Claiming You for My Own

The Emperor Steals His Minister's Wife + Forced Possession. Next up: "Mistaken for the Eastern Palace's Concubine"

Shen Nian was the illegitimate daughter of a duke's household, born to a mother who sang in a brothel. She was not acknowledged by the Shen family until she was ten. After that, she kept her head down and endured mistreatment without daring to fight back.

Less than a year after coming of age, her stepmother arranged her marriage.

Though her betrothed came from a modest family, he was of respectable birth. More importantly, he respected and loved her.

But fate had other plans. After an accident, she and Crown Prince Pei Zheng were afflicted by a love curse.

On every full moon, they became husband and wife for one night.

She became his antidote, and also his secret, favored maid.

She knew that, in his eyes, she was nothing more than a plaything.

Once the curse was lifted, they would go their separate ways.

She would marry her husband, and he would wed a noblewoman.

What Shen Nian never expected was that after the curse was lifted, he would regret it.

In the jade chambers and beneath the warm red lanterns and curtains,

Pei Zheng became her one and only nightmare.

*

Pei Zheng had never cared about Shen Nian. Forced into an entanglement with her, he saw her as a plaything in the palm of his hand, someone he could bully and use as he pleased.

He used her body, and she made use of his power.

They each got what they wanted, and stayed out of each other's way.

He despised Shen Nian's lowly status and everything about her.

He hated even more that she could control his heart and mind, and more than once he wanted to kill her.

Later, the love curse was finally lifted.

He and Shen Nian went their separate ways. But when he saw her with his own eyes, nestled in another man's arms, shyly kissing the corner of his lips,

he finally understood: the curse could never be broken.

He was already poisoned to the core.

*

In the first year of the Great Jin era, the new emperor ascended the throne. A common-born daughter of Duke Shen died after a long illness, and a new Imperial Consort Chen joined the harem.

In the Hall of Mental Cultivation, the lamps burned through the night.

Shen Nian curled up on the bed, her voice trembling. "I am already another man's wife. Your Majesty, please behave with propriety."

Pei Zheng let out a soft, mocking laugh. Taking a red ribbon, he wound it slowly around her wrist and said coldly, "Another man's wife? After all this time tangled up with Me, whose wife are you, really?"

Saved on 5.4, screenshots as proof. Many thanks to my teacher.

*At first, he only treated her as an antidote, then as a plaything... and later, he willingly became her servant.*

Next novel: "Mistaken for the Eastern Palace's Concubine"

Su He was an orphan of humble birth, yet the most favored concubine in the Crown Prince's residence. Crown Prince Xiao Ye was stern and reserved, and kept his distance from women, but he was gentle and attentive toward her alone.

She thought she could settle down in the Crown Prince's residence and live out her days in peace.

Until the day of a family banquet, when the imperial grandson, who had been recuperating elsewhere, returned home and shattered the calm.

*

No one knew that Su He had once pledged herself to the imperial grandson while he was in dire straits, sharing tender, passionate days with him in a mountain hut. Then he vanished without a trace.

She went to the capital to find him, only to become the Crown Prince's concubine, and thus his stepmother.

At the banquet, she happened to meet Xiao Chengyin's burning gaze. The teacup slipped from her hand and fell to the floor. As she and Xiao Chengyin bent to pick it up, their fingertips accidentally touched.

When she stood, Su He saw the Crown Prince staring at her with bloodshot eyes. His gaze was unlike anything she had seen before... now it was as if he wanted to devour her.

*

That night, red candles flickered and embroidered curtains fell.

The bed was filled with the sound of ragged breathing, over and over.

The Crown Prince, his face flushed, pinned Su He to the couch and gripped her waist. He leaned close to her ear and rasped, "Tell Me, what have you and Yin'er done together?"

*

Xiao Chengyin had once pledged himself to a country girl. On his way to find her, he was injured and spent a year recuperating elsewhere. When he finally returned home, he heard that his father had taken a new consort, who had become his favorite.

Only after seeing her did he realize that this consort was the woman he had been searching for.

She still smiled brightly, delicate and lovely, like a ray of light illuminating his gloomy world.

Watching her whisper and cuddle with his father,

Xiao Chengyin, usually so upright and refined, began to harbor wicked thoughts. He would take his stepmother back and make her his forever.

Content warnings:

1. The female and male leads are each other's first and only partners, and the male lead is sexually inexperienced. However, the heroine will be intimate with the second male lead, so this is not suitable for readers who require absolute chastity.

2. The male lead is a mad dog who bites anyone he dislikes.

3. Please do not offer writing advice.

4. At first, the heroine and the second male lead are only bound by an engagement.

Theme: Love can overcome anything