I Accidentally Flirted with the Imperial Prince

Pseudo-incest / taking by cunning and force

A scheming, seemingly innocent crown prince x A beauty who flirts without realizing it

1. Fourth Princess Song Qingrong is extraordinarily beautiful, but she spent most of her time in a separate palace, so it’s only natural that she lacks some etiquette and accomplishments.

No matter what, she should still be able to find herself a good husband.

But ever since she returned from the separate palace, she has been engaged three times. She got along well with her fiances, yet they all either died or ran away.

At first, this wasn’t a big deal. But now she’s seventeen and needs to get married.

2. Crown Prince Song Jingming is as graceful as an orchid and as refreshing as a breeze. Though young, he already has the bearing of a future ruler. The people admire him and the officials praise him, so surely he knows many outstanding young men.

So Song Qingrong curries favor with the crown prince, hoping he’ll find her a good husband.

She hides behind a corridor pillar, listening with delight.

But her radiant, noble elder brother looks at the many portraits of young men from prominent families on the table and says, unhurriedly and with a teasing smile, “Rong’er is such a dear girl. I’m not ready to let this fourth younger sister of mine marry yet.”

Song Qingrong: ? She was only trying to win her elder brother over so she could find a good husband.

Besides, her elder brother shouldn’t like her. Even though they always sat together at banquets, they hardly spoke. How could she possibly have won his favor?

3. If she can’t get him to find her a husband, she’ll find one herself.

And if she’s choosing for herself, she’ll naturally pick someone she likes. The new top scorer may not have her elder brother’s charm, but he’s still exceptional.

Desperate, she takes a bold gamble. One rainy day, she slips the top scorer a note, arranging to meet at Qingquan Temple.

At some point, somehow, an aphrodisiac incense is lit inside the temple.

In a haze of passion, her shoulders bare and her bodice half-open, she sees the top scorer come in. She embraces him from behind and pours out her feelings: “Qingrong loves you. Will you become my consort?”

The man turns around, and she falls into his arms, taking his hand and placing it against her heart. “My love is true. Heaven and earth can bear witness.”

“Fourth Younger Sister, why don’t you take a look at who I am?”

She looks up and sees a man with brows like distant mountains and eyes like the bright moon, standing tall as a jade mountain. He gazes at her coolly, the faintest hint of mockery on his lips.

It is none other than the crown prince, Song Jingming.

Her mind suddenly clears. She falls to the ground and hurriedly straightens her clothes, panic filling her eyes. “Elder Brother...”

4. Later, after Song Qingrong is stripped of her title, she is confined to Qingquan Temple. It is supposed to be a place for those who have left the ways of the world, but they spend their days together and their nights in passionate embraces.

In the very room where she once arranged to meet another man, her elder brother Song Jingming presses her into a corner of the bed. He lightly pinches her chin, the corner of his mouth lifting. “Why don’t you say those things to your elder brother anymore?”

One day, Song Jingming’s younger sister accidentally enters a secret chamber in the Eastern Palace. Behind a half-drawn gauze curtain, she sees a painting of a beautiful woman emerging from a bath.

As the light shifts, the woman’s clothes gradually fall away. Water still glistens on her skin, running down the graceful curves of her body...

Her toes touch the ground, curling slightly, as if the floor is chilly, or perhaps she is languid and weak from soaking too long.

That figure looks so much like her fourth older sister, Song Qingrong...

Reader’s Guide:

1. The main characters’ personalities may be deal-breakers.

2. Fictional setting.

3. Pseudo-incest: the leads are not related by blood, and they get together after their familial relationship is dissolved.

Theme: Love others, love yourself, and love life