Your Highness, Do You Regret It?

[Main story complete; bonus chapters for the secondary couple are updating]

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As the heir to the throne of the southeastern prince, Zhu Shijin has had everything go his way since birth. Heaven gave him a noble family, exceptional abilities, and even outstanding looks.

At twenty, he encountered the first little setback of his life. To avoid the Emperor's arranged marriage, he hastily married a Qian Lord and made him his heir's consort.

This Qian Lord was stupid, clumsy, and unsophisticated. Give him some food and a place to live, and he would foolishly say, "Your Highness is so good to me." He was so stupid that even after being used up and tossed aside, he would help the other person count the money.

Zhu Shijin looked down on this dim-witted little country dog. He treated him like a dispensable plaything, teasing him and kicking him away whenever he was in a bad mood.

But this little country dog was far too stupid. He never held a grudge. As long as Zhu Shijin beckoned, he would come trotting back, tail wagging.

Sometimes, when Zhu Shijin saw the poor fellow abandoned to one side, looking foolishly lost and unable to figure out what he had done wrong, he would feel a little tenderness toward him.

Well, one more mouth to feed would hardly make a difference to the prince's estate. He could keep him around as a lucky charm.

His name was Gu Yanzhou.

Gu Yanzhou came running over. "Your Highness, I'm here."

Zhu Shijin: "Come with me to the banquet."

Gu Yanzhou wagged his tail happily. "Yes."

Zhu Shijin was pleased. He thought Gu Yanzhou only wagged his tail for him, but one day he suddenly discovered that the little country dog had other country-dog friends.

He was already uncouth enough. And now he spent every day among a pack of country dogs. How could he ever learn to behave with proper refinement?

Zhu Shijin scolded him, but Gu Yanzhou talked back. Zhu Shijin was shocked to realize he had treated him too well, letting him think he could get away with anything.

He turned cold and drove the little country dog down to the foot of the mountain. He ignored and isolated him, determined to teach him the consequences of making him angry.

The little country dog could only live in a tiny courtyard and eat mediocre food, all alone, watching Zhu Shijin from afar every day.

Zhu Shijin was pleased. He thought, You need to learn who your master is.

But he was also a little displeased, because the little country dog seemed to have lost a lot of weight.

Could the servants be mistreating him?

Once he realized his mistake, Zhu Shijin would bring him back. What could a silly dog possibly understand?

...But before Zhu Shijin could bring him back, his foolish little dog died.

He even died carrying Zhu Shijin's child.

A haughty heir, aloof as a mountain flower but warm-hearted underneath, gong x a silly, sunny young general, a little country-dog shou

Ancient-era ABO, Qian Lords, He Lords, and Kun Lords

Angst, pregnancy escape, faked death, and a blazing-hot wife-chasing crematorium

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