Exile: The Crown Prince’s Cherished One Is an Ugly Maid

[Ugly Maid as Substitute Bride × Deposed Crown Prince in Exile × Desperately Winning His Wife Back × Marriage Before Love × Pregnant and on the Run × Mutual Redemption × Ugly Girl’s Triumphant Rise] She is the ugliest menial maid in a marquis’s residence. She has a birthmark on her face and calluses all over her hands. For six years, everyone has called her Achou. He is the most exalted Crown Prince of the imperial family. Then, in a single day, he is deposed. His legs are crippled, he loses his place as heir to the throne, and he is escorted three thousand li away into exile. —— When the marquis’s residence cannot produce a bride, she is shoved into a bridal sedan to take a noble young lady’s place in this so-called “happy occasion.” Everyone thinks she has been extraordinarily lucky: “An ugly maid gets to marry the Crown Prince. Even if he’s been deposed, her ancestors must be smiling down on her.” Only she knows that the man sitting in the prison cart heading north is no exalted Crown Prince, but a pitiful man covered in wounds, delirious with fever, and unable to trust anyone. —— Through wind and snow, along the three-thousand-li road into exile, she brews his medicine, sets his bones, and shields him from blades. He pushes her away again and again, and again and again, she crawls back. Until, late one night, he clasps her hand in the grip of a nightmare and calls out a name— Not his grandmother’s. Not the name of one of his former officials. Hers. “Aheng…” —— Later, he raises an army, fights his way back to Yujing, and ascends the imperial throne. The civil and military officials of the entire court pressure him to choose a wellborn young lady as his empress instead. He says only one thing: “She gave me my life. Why shouldn’t I give her half my realm?” And she runs away, carrying his child… Both leads have no previous partners + farming and rural life + political intrigue + the ways of the world + palace intrigue + satisfying reversals against those who look down on her + a slow-building romance — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: Exile: The Crown Prince’s Cherished One Is an Ugly Maid — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠