[Marriage first, love later. The leads are physically attracted to each other.]
Xiao Yan, the Prince Regent, is the current emperor's sixth uncle. Handsome and accomplished in both civil and military affairs, he wields immense power at a young age.
Every faction wants to place a woman by his side, but the cold-faced prince is devoted to state affairs and keeps away from women. Rumor has it that Xiao Yan was injured on the battlefield years ago and can no longer perform his marital duties...
Empress Dowager Sun has long been wary of Xiao Yan. She persuaded the emperor to marry her niece, Lu Yan, to the Prince Regent, so she could find out whether the rumor was true.
Lu Yan: What? I refuse to marry that block of ice.
But in the end, she married into the prince's residence for the sake of her own freedom and her sister's.
To complete her mission and leave the prince's residence as soon as possible, Lu Yan tried everything she could, but Xiao Yan remained unmoved.
Lu Yan was sure Xiao Yan didn't like her. But the prince was so handsome, and his figure was so good. What would it feel like to touch that broad, firm chest, or lie against it? And those broad shoulders and narrow waist...
Lu Yan tried to rein in her wild thoughts, but then she noticed something strange. Why did the usually unsmiling prince always smile at her? Why did the prince, who disliked physical closeness, hold her so tightly? Why did he keep saying such strange things and taking her hand to touch him...
Wait, what's going on? He wasn't like this before!!!
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Shen Qiao was born into humble circumstances. By a twist of fate, she was betrothed as a baby to the second son of the Pingyuan Marquis's second branch. She had worried that the young master might look down on her, but to her surprise, the two fell deeply in love and became a celebrated couple.
But fate had other plans. Three months before their wedding, he drowned in a raging flood while protecting his third younger brother from the first branch. His body was never found.
Shen Qiao married into the marquis's household as planned.
Two years later, everyone had accepted that he would never return, but Shen Qiao still lived alone, keeping her virtue for her late husband.
The Second Concubine used her past kindness as leverage to ask the First Madam to have her eldest son, Pei Zheng'an, take responsibility for both branches of the family, so the Second Concubine's son could have an heir.
Shen Qiao resisted. She only wanted to remain faithful to her late husband, not get involved with her brother-in-law... But if it was to give him an heir, she was willing...
Pei Zheng'an, the eldest son of the Pingyuan Marquis, was upright, proper, and courteous, with the noble bearing of the moon in the sky and a pine in the forest.
Though the First Madam felt indebted to the second branch, she had no wish for her son to be dragged into such a sordid affair. But when Pei Zheng'an learned what was being asked, it took him less than three days to agree.
Shen Qiao had lived in the household for two years, devoted to thoughts of her late husband and scrupulous about propriety. She was a sensible woman and surely wouldn't cling to him. In the end, this was a debt they owed the second branch. As the eldest son, he ought to do this.
But later, he never expected that he would be the one to become attached.
On one secret night after another, as he gazed at the delicate woman beneath him, he couldn't resist the desire of his heart and body. He longed to make her his, and couldn't help wanting to know who she was thinking of at that moment.
He was nothing like his late younger brother. They were so different. If she had loved his brother, how could she ever love him as he was?
But his love ran wild, and one rainy night, emboldened by wine, he pulled her into his arms. Gazing at her with her eyes tightly shut and her senses clouded, he coaxed her with a question: "Who am I?"
Theme: Love each other dearly and grow old together
