The Night My Husband Died, the Cold Crown Prince Imprisoned Me in His Embrace

[Reborn] [A Prince Steals His Subject's Wife] [Seduction from the Start] [Household Intrigue]

On the night her husband dies, Lin Jingchan is forced into the bed of the aloof Crown Prince.

A night of passion leaves her with child.

In her previous life, she panics and gets rid of a baby who should never have existed.

But her husband's family rejects her, her own family is dragged down with her, and she dies trapped in the red-light district.

Given another life, Lin Jingchan grits her teeth and sets her sights on the Crown Prince, a man as elegant as a pine and as ethereal as a crane, cold and distant.

Incense drifts through the temple. The young widow, dressed all in white, gazes at him with tearful eyes, as gentle as spring snow in Jiangnan.

Lin Jingchan's fingertips stir. She lightly tugs at the man's sleeve, her cherry-red lips trembling. "Your Highness, save me..."

The usually disciplined and proper Pei Yuan's eyes roil with darkness. He grips the jade thumb ring in his hand with astonishing force.

Pei Yuan, a noble scion of the imperial house, was named Crown Prince in childhood.

Cold and dignified, he pays no heed to the mortal world.

When he first meets Lin Jingchan, the wife of his late friend, everyone marvels at the widow's beauty.

But he sees only hypocrisy, deceit, and a mind full of schemes.

Until later...

Pei Yuan's eyes are red at the corners as he pins her to the bed. Their temples brush, and he caresses her again and again, while the gaze usually so indifferent by day overflows with desire.

"Compared with your husband, how do I measure up?"

Cheng Xun, heir to the Marquis of Dingtao, survives by the skin of his teeth and returns to the capital with a peasant girl. His only concern is his beautiful wife.

He worries she is so fragile and lovely that she won't be able to bear it if she follows him into death.

But when he sees Lin Jingchan again,

her belly is swollen with pregnancy, and her features are more radiant than ever.

And standing by her side is his childhood friend,

the Crown Prince, a man disciplined and proper, with no interest in women.