Don't Regret It, Your Majesty. My Brother-in-Law and I Already Have a Child

On the third day after her divorce, Lu Qiuyan took the farewell letter left by her late cousin and forced the man in the capital who despised her most to marry her.

Shen Xi looked at the woman before him, who had just been thrown out by Prince An.

His eyes full of scorn, Shen Xi gripped her chin and sneered, "For wealth and glory, you would even seduce your own brother-in-law?"

The whole capital waited to see Lu Qiuyan make a fool of herself, mocking her vanity as she leaped from one wolf's den straight into another.

Lu Qiuyan thought this arrangement suited her just fine.

She would use his influence to protect her child. Once she had safely given birth, she would ask him for a divorce and they would owe each other nothing.

Everyone said she had no shame, that she was a vicious woman who had stolen another woman's place out of greed. Even Shen Xi wished she were dead.

She knew her station was low and had never dared hope for his affection.

But later, when Shen Xi discovered that she was the woman from the pleasure boat that had haunted his dreams;

when he discovered that she was also the beloved woman in the painting in his study, the one who had given him a cloak in the snow...

Later still, she packed her belongings and prepared to run away with the baby.

Duke Shen, always so restrained and proper, completely lost his mind.

Eyes bloodshot, he cornered her against the wall and clutched her swollen belly. The hand that usually wielded a blade trembled as it brushed her cheek.

He would not let her run, and he would not let her mention divorce again.

"Yanyan, this child is mine, and so are you."

"Want to leave? Only over my dead body."