The Trial Bride Runs Away Pregnant, and the Brooding Heir Comes Looking for Her

[Gentle on the Outside, Ruthless Within Maidservant vs. Deranged, Brooding Heir] Possessive Love / The Husband’s Groveling Pursuit / A Powerful Man Bows His Head for Love.

The year Huanzhen was at her heaviest, the vicious and jealous eldest young lady forced her to serve as a trial bride, sending her to the bed of her fiancé, Zhao Ji, heir to the Prince of Yan.

Everyone laughed at Huanzhen.

How could someone as noble as Zhao Ji possibly favor a fat girl?

Later...

Night after night, water was carried into the heir’s courtyard. Huanzhen was trapped in bed, suffering terribly.

Later still.

Huanzhen became pregnant.

Zhao Ji planned to raise her to the status of a concubine. But when he returned from an assignment, he was greeted by news that Huanzhen had eloped with another man while pregnant with his child.

A strip of white silk failed to take Huanzhen’s life.

Pei Ying saved her, and she gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl.

Pei Ying was a gentleman as bright as the moon, the finest man Huanzhen had ever known.

They married and lived in seclusion in Lin’an. Their life was the peace and happiness Huanzhen had always dreamed of.

But in just five short years, that domineering, violent man came looking for her.