Synopsis
My other novel, My Brother-in-Law Insists on Marrying Into My Family with a Cold Face, is now open for posting. Please add it to your collection!
⭐️ The aloof beauty goes mad for love | Coercive pursuit | She runs away while pregnant ⭐️
This story features a gentle, nostalgic, honest woman x a gloomy, obsessive, arrogant crown prince.
Song Ling married at eighteen. Her husband died when she was nineteen. After three years as a widow, someone at court declared that she had been born with the destiny of a phoenix and would one day become empress, the mother of all under heaven.
Everyone thought it absurd. Yet the very next day, an imperial decree ordered her to marry into the Eastern Palace as the crown prince's consort.
Song Ling refused to marry again, and would rather die than obey the decree.
In the dark, damp prison, the crown prince stood before her in ordinary clothes. He gripped her chin and demanded, "Am I really no match for your late husband?"
Song Ling nodded and answered, "Yes."
The crown prince immediately turned on his heel and left.
Later, word spread through the court that the crown prince had defied the imperial decree ordering him to marry and had been demoted to commoner and confined in the palace.
Song Ling's heart softened. She did not want someone else to bear the blame for her, and she had heard that the crown prince was gentle and refined, a man who took his promises seriously. So she made a deal with him:
She would marry into the Eastern Palace and fulfill the marriage contract, but three years later, once he ascended the throne, he would let her leave the palace at once and give her back her freedom.
On their wedding night, she fulfilled her duties as a wife and fainted in the man's arms, her hair damp with sweat.
The crown prince gently brushed the damp strands from her face and, just as he had many years ago, lowered his head to kiss her eyelashes.
"Xuanxuan, I have waited for you through two lifetimes."
"Tonight, at last, you are my wife again."
**
After they married, the crown prince comported himself like a gentleman. Though he demanded her without restraint at night, he also rescued her from danger several times.
Grateful to him, Song Ling knew she had no intention of bearing heirs for the royal family, so she decided to arrange for the crown prince to take as a concubine the woman he had truly wanted to marry, his first love.
To her surprise, the crown prince flew into a rage over it. He severely punished everyone in the Eastern Palace, and even confined her to her bedchamber for several days and nights, taking whatever he wanted from her.
When his first love failed to get what she wanted, she sowed discord in Song Ling's ear and brought up the truth about her late husband's death.
Song Ling gave nothing away. On the night of the crown prince's birthday, she wore red and performed a song. At the moment he was happiest, she plunged a sharp knife into his chest.
The crown prince was drenched in blood, yet he smiled as he touched her face. "Xuanxuan, I killed him, but I love you."
So the gentleness and refinement, the gentlemanly conduct, had all been a pretense.
Back then, he had personally prepared the poison that sent her husband to his death.
Song Ling laughed coldly, set a great fire, and left without looking back.
"The murder of my husband is an unforgivable crime."
**
Five years later, the crown prince led an army on campaign and encountered his former crown princess in a border town.
By then, his former crown princess had a husband and a daughter, and the family was deeply in love.
That night, a fire mysteriously broke out at Song Ling's home.
She lost consciousness in the flames. When she opened her eyes again, the crown prince was the only one before her, staring fixedly at her.
He wound a strand of her hair around his finger and breathed in its scent. When he smiled, he was like a ghost gliding soundlessly through the night.
"Xuanxuan, you know perfectly well that I can't live without you."
"You insist on marrying someone else? Fine."
"Then don't blame me..."
"I'll kill every man you meet."
#Reborn twice, he came for me both times#
⭐️ An alternate world with many original details. No nitpicking about historical accuracy.
⭐️ The female lead is not a virgin, but the male characters are all pure in body and mind. The third husband is a misunderstanding.
⭐️ Marriage first, love later x secret love becomes reality. After being reborn, the male lead forces her into marriage and goes mad for love.
⭐️ The blurb was archived on August 11, 2025; version 2.0 was archived on August 16, 2025; version 3.0 on June 5, 2026.
⭐️ The male lead may be a bastard, but there's more to why he killed the first husband. He deserved to die. (The crown prince's words.)
Theme: Be independent and strong
