Shattered Spring: The Runaway Concubine Is Carrying the Dragon’s Heir

Because of a misunderstanding, Song Wenxi was sent to Yan Wangchen's bed. Only after a night of passion did they realize he'd mistaken her for someone else.

She later learned that Yan Wangchen had been so passionate that night because someone had poisoned him. Every month, on the fifth day, the poison flared up, and he had to sleep with someone or die.

She had no choice but to use her own body to save him, because he had once done her a kindness.

But Yan Wangchen came on the fifth, then the fifteenth, and then again on the twenty-fifth. When she asked why, he only said, “The poison's flaring up more and more often.”

She didn't believe a word of it. His eyes were perfectly clear; he didn't look poisoned at all.

In truth, she'd admired him for a long time, but she didn't dare say so.

He was the noble Third Prince, who could only marry a woman of extraordinary talent. She was merely a concubine-born daughter, driven out to a farmstead where she struggled to survive, barely able to look after herself.

She knew it, and so did he.

At last, one day, Yan Wangchen said, “My poison is cured. I'm going to take a wife.”

Song Wenxi nodded. “All right. Then don't come back, my lord.”

Later, he became emperor. He could marry whomever he wanted.

But she no longer wished to marry him.