[Child of a powerful family / Forced possession / Groveling to win her back / Mutual pining]
Jiao Niang was abandoned as a baby.
If Baozhu, the mistress of Huai Xiang Tower, hadn't heard her crying on the way to pray at a temple and saved her, she would have died in the freezing cold.
Her life was saved, but a high fever left Jiao Niang a little slow-witted.
As she grew older, she became more and more beautiful, but her personality remained dull and naive.
Just as Baozhu was fretting day and night over what to do with her wooden-headed daughter,
Jiao Niang's birth parents showed up.
And with them came the man who would later make Jiao Niang love and fear him, yet remain her husband for the rest of her life.
Her cousin, the Crown Prince of the Great Zhou Dynasty, Zhou Songyi.
The day Zhou Songyi realized he'd fallen in love with the dull and naive Jiao Niang,
he felt more shame than happiness.
He pressed his cold sword against Jiao Niang's throat as she slept, inch by inch tightening his grip, consumed by madness and thinking he might as well kill her.
The day Jiao Niang discovered that Zhou Songyi wanted to kill her, her dream came to a complete end.
She no longer yearned for the splendor of the capital. All she wanted was the bright spring days along the Qinhuai River.
So she packed her bags and ran.
After pursuing her day and night all the way to Qinhuai, he saw only the woman who plagued his thoughts and kept him awake at night, smiling brightly at someone else.
Zhou Songyi sat on his horse and watched from afar, his face calm, his gaze dark with menace.
That night, lightning flashed, thunder roared, and torrential rain poured down.
Someone broke into Jiao Niang's room and dragged the panicked woman into his arms. He gripped her cheeks and, eyes lowered, asked her word by word:
"Qin Huaian, who was the person who made you so happy today?"
[The supremely possessive Crown Prince, a favored son of heaven]
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[The carefree, slow-witted, wooden-headed, universally adored heroine]
Reader's Guide:
Forced possession, groveling to win her back. The male lead isn't bad by nature and won't hurt the heroine.
One-on-one, both virgins, happy ending.
The heroine is universally adored and doted on by everyone. She's a kind and lovable sweetheart.
The heroine isn't stupid; she just takes a little longer to understand things.
It isn't exactly a story of a strong woman and weak man, but the heroine really does have a lovely personality.
Theme: Face your heart with courage
