The Mute Concubine Turns Out to Be the Crown Prince

【Clear-eyed, money-loving young madam × Patient, scheming, pure-hearted prince】 【Borrowed seed and childbirth + both leads’ first love + secret identities revealed + sweet romance and satisfying revenge】 Yu Zhi was sold by her greedy parents to bring good fortune to the sickly young master of the Xue family, the wealthiest family in Jiangnan. On their wedding night, her sickly husband coughed up three mouthfuls of blood and coldly declared, “My heart belongs only to my moonlight. If you want to keep the family fortune from being swallowed up by the second branch, go find someone outside and have a child. As long as you’re pregnant before I die, I’ll accept it.” Yu Zhi was overjoyed: She wouldn’t have to serve her husband, and all she had to do was have a child to receive a huge payout and endless riches? She was in! To produce the perfect heir, she searched high and low and brought home a handsome, down-on-his-luck man with broad shoulders, a narrow waist, and a face beyond compare, who couldn’t speak. She fed and pampered him, boldly protected him from assassins, spent a fortune to cure his muteness, and teased him every night, all in the hopes of having a child as soon as possible. Until one day… The Xue family’s second branch stirred up trouble, trying to drown Yu Zhi for “cheating,” while her sickly ex-husband prepared to throw her aside after using her. At the critical moment, the Prince of Ning, rumored to be cold-hearted and wielding power over the court, suddenly stormed the Xue family’s gates with the imperial guards. He kicked the second branch to the ground, carefully drew Yu Zhi into his arms, and said in a voice cold as ice, “Who dares lay a hand on my beloved consort and my child?” Her sickly ex-husband fainted on the spot: I told you to find just anyone to father a child, but you got the prince himself?! Yu Zhi was stunned too: What happened to the destitute mute? How did borrowing his seed turn into me having to become empress?!