Luring the Spring Branch

Romance · Historical Romance · Drama · Sweet

At nine years old, homeless Chunzhi was picked up by Lu Jingyun and became his child bride.

With one line, “If I achieve success in the imperial exams one day, I will surely marry you,” he got ten years of her desperate support.

The young man had lofty ambitions and, after passing the imperial examinations, married the daughter of a high-ranking official instead, telling her to lower herself and become his concubine.

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The day she was abandoned by the new top scholar, Chunzhi picked up a man to be her husband.

Her newlywed husband was picky and hard to coax during the day, but insatiable at night.

What was even stranger was that every time she ran into trouble, he could resolve it with ease.

She thought she could live a peaceful and stable life from then on, and little by little she began to fall for him.

Then one day, a group of high officials came to the door and knelt all over the ground.

Only then did she learn that the husband she had picked up was actually Huo Zheng, the Chang'an King with overwhelming power and influence.

Before leaving, everyone asked him how he intended to arrange Chunzhi.

She heard him personally throw out a contemptuous line: “A country girl, nothing more than a toy.”

Chunzhi’s heart shattered, so she staged her death and left, disappearing without a trace.

But Huo Zheng coughed up blood and went red-eyed.

He searched for her bitterly for half a year, and when he finally saw Chunzhi again, she was wearing a wedding dress with a slight swell at her belly, about to marry another man……