After Exile, I Became the Disgraced Crown Prince’s Beloved

[Exile + playing the fool to catch the tiger + 1v1 + doting romance + healing each other] After Song Yun married her lame, disgraced Crown Prince cousin-in-law in her cousin's place, she unexpectedly discovered that she was the doomed cannon fodder in a political intrigue novel, and that her husband, once a paragon of grace and virtue, was in fact the story's unambiguous main villain. Trembling with fear, she diligently played the role of Mu Rong Zhi's loyal lackey, hoping to escape the plot of the original novel. But she never expected that, at some point, the powerful patron she clung to would start looking at her more and more strangely. Mu Rong Zhi was the son of the late empress. He was named Crown Prince at birth and was the heir to the Great Shuo. In his youth, he was a dazzling prodigy who went to the border and drove out every last enemy, a rare young talent. But it all came to an abrupt end when he turned twenty. He lost the use of both legs in a battle against Western Xia, leaving him unable to walk and making his disposition increasingly gloomy and unpredictable. After becoming embroiled in a treason case, the once-prosperous Eastern Palace was consumed by flames. In his previous life, he fought his way back into the court, killing every enemy in turn. But after finally avenging himself, he was spent and near death. Given another life, he returned to the time of his exile, thinking he could simply walk the same path again. He never expected that his late wife, who had died not long after they married, would come back to life too, often gazing at him with a rather heated look. Mu Rong Zhi: “...” Reader's guide: The early chapters are more comedic, while the story gradually becomes more serious in the middle and later parts.