Dyeing Lantern Flowers [Reborn into a Matriarchal World]

Xie Changzhao, crown princess of the Nanyu Kingdom, was beloved by all, yet died at the hands of her deputy general while putting down a rebellion in the south. Her younger sister joined forces with the man she loved and personally pushed her into the abyss.

Only her husband, two months pregnant, leapt from a sheer cliff with her corpse in his arms.

In life, she had despised his cold, aloof manner and his seeming indifference to everything. She thought him despicable and underhanded for drugging her, a hypocrite pretending to be something he wasn't.

Reborn on the day she was drugged, she finally learned that she had misunderstood him. The real culprits were her younger sister and the person she herself loved.

Holding the soft and delicate figure in her arms, Xie Changzhao knew she was in the wrong.

As the legitimate son of the prime minister, Mu Chiyan was betrothed to Crown Princess Xie Changzhao before he was even born.

She was bright and bold, the dream woman of countless young nobles in the capital.

He often watched her secretly from the shadows, repeating to himself over and over, “One day, she will be my wife.”

Then they were both drugged, and for some inexplicable reason, the image of her cold face and cutting words appeared in his mind.

But she didn't treat him with the utter disdain he'd seen in his dreams, abandoning him in the residence and ignoring him. Instead, she took his hand and knelt before the empress.

“Mother Empress, I want to give him a proper title.”

When she met Chu Mingxi, the person who had harmed her in her past life, again, he stood in her way, covered in wounds.

He looked at her pitifully. “Your Highness, don't you love me anymore?”

Xie Changzhao didn't want to deal with him and turned to leave. Mu Chiyan hurried forward and took her arm. Before she could react, his soft lips landed on the corner of her mouth.

What she didn't notice was that when Mu Chiyan turned a provocative gaze on Chu Mingxi, Chu's eyes went completely red.

[One-on-one romance, male pregnancy] Alternate universe

Blurb written on 2025.2.26

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