1.
Lu Zhiyi was the illegitimate daughter lost for many years and recently found by the Zheng Duke's household.
Raised in the countryside, she was sturdy and the perfect candidate for bearing a son at the first try.
Her legitimate elder sister had been married to the Heir of Prince Qin for years without having a child.
To keep the heir's heart, she could only send Lu Zhiyi to his bed.
2.
Lu Zhiyi refused to be a mere childbearing tool, and carefully looked for a chance to escape.
At a banquet, her elder sister left no stone unturned in her efforts to have a child, and secretly poisoned her.
When her mind grew hazy, she stumbled into a dark room. Acting on instinct, she pulled out a dagger, wounded the person inside, and fled in a panic.
She spent the whole night anxious and terrified, but heard nothing about any guest being injured before dawn.
Not until the next day,
when she saw the man with a wounded wrist in the main hall of the prince's residence.
The man was mature and refined. He wore a black four-clawed golden-threaded python robe and a white jade crown, his expression as composed as ever.
A maid whispered, "That is the heir's father, Prince Qin."
Lu Zhiyi's face instantly turned deathly pale.
3.
Her elder sister had tried every possible way to get Lu Zhiyi into the heir's bed,
but then heard that she was secretly meeting a man in the courtyard.
Fuming, she summoned all the matrons from the courtyard to catch them. When she lifted the curtain,
she saw Lu Zhiyi stroking her swollen belly, her cheeks flushed,
and the man shielding her was none other than her father-in-law, Prince Qin.
4.
The first time Prince Qin met Lu Zhiyi, her eyes were full of fear and resentment.
Months later, when her trembling fingers hooked around his jade belt clasp,
she pleaded, "Please... please show me mercy, Your Highness. Protect me."
Prince Qin chuckled. "I never make a losing deal. I'll depose the heir, and you can bear me another heir, my dear."
1. Both leads are each other's first and only love. The male lead is a prince with a different surname, and the heir is not his biological son.
2. An old flame rekindled.
(2025.6.11)
Theme: Love the world
