Embroidered Spring Boudoir

Seven years ago, Shen Qingtang severed her ties with Xie Jinyan herself. “I've already taken the abortion medicine. You're a penniless scholar, and you still think you can marry me? Who do you think you are?” Seven years later, they meet again. He is the emperor and empress's legitimate son, Prince Jing, who holds immense power over the court, and he is engaged to a county princess. She is only an embroiderer scraping by with her daughter, not even worthy of meeting his gaze. He hates her to the core, yet appoints her as the prince's residence's exclusive embroiderer, ordering her to sew the wedding clothes for his marriage to the county princess. He makes things difficult for her at every turn and humiliates her relentlessly, yet appears in her room late at night to mock her. “Has the well-matched husband your mother found for you run out of money to support you?” Shen Qingtang knows Xie Jinyan hates her. He has a fiancée, and she has no intention of getting entangled with him again. Yet on the day she tries to flee, he blocks her way, eyes red as he demands, “Do you really want to leave me that badly?” Later, when she believes he killed her parents and, heartbroken, prepares to marry someone else, he grabs her like a madman and cries out hoarsely, “Shen Qingtang, you were the one who came after me first! How can you leave me behind now?”