[Strong female lead, satisfying revenge, high-IQ palace intrigue, a ruthless schemer who stops at nothing, and a pregnancy buff]
From the moment Zheng Chu was old enough to understand the world, she knew she was the Zheng family's unloved illegitimate daughter. She had always been someone who would stop at nothing to get what she wanted.
She had one goal: to enter the palace and become a consort. She knew that, as an illegitimate daughter, she could only be a poor family's wife or a powerful family's concubine. But she had no desire to suffer in a poor household. And as for becoming a concubine, she would rather be the emperor's consort than a commoner's.
So, after more than a decade of careful planning, an imperial decree summoning Zheng Chu to the palace as a consort finally granted her wish.
“Everyone in this palace lives for their own interests or their family. All I have to do is use every means at my disposal to climb higher, until I reach the place every woman in the world longs for.”
Looking at the magnificent palace, Zheng Chu let a faint smile play across her lips. She took a deep breath, her gaze turning fierce. “My life is only just beginning!”
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Li Chengqian couldn't take his eyes off the second daughter of the Zheng family.
She was the first woman to interest him, yet she seemed not to care about him at all. Countless women would do anything for the chance to appear before him, but she seemed to want nothing to do with him.
Intrigued, Li Chengqian had the Zheng family change the woman entering the palace from their eldest daughter to their second daughter.
Even after entering the palace, Zheng Chu remained utterly distant toward him. This only stoked the emperor's interest, making him determined to completely conquer this ungrateful woman.
Even Li Chengqian himself never expected that, in the process, Zheng Chu would completely capture his heart.
And so Li Chengqian spent his whole life trying to win her over, forever falling at Zheng Chu's feet.
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The pace is good, and the main character has clear ideas, but can the author update it faster? Even the donkeys in the production team dare not take a rest like this [pout]