The Sweet Palace Maid Won’t Play Palace Politics, She’ll Lie Flat and Become a Favored Consort

[Not a chaste couple + devoted romance later on + pain-sensation swap + fictional setting + happy ending] After failing the palace selection, Ruan Jinxin became a palace maid and was repeatedly bullied. Luckily, their pain-sensation swap forced the emperor to protect her. But as he continued protecting her, the ruler of an entire nation found himself falling for her. Step by step, he made plans for her and helped her rise to the position of empress. But the little palace maid carried old grudges from both her past and present lives. Now that she held great power, she would repay every wrong. Anyone who bullied her would be punished... , A concubine made her kneel. The next day, her legs were swollen badly, but her knees didn’t hurt at all. She was slapped so hard that blood ran from the corner of her mouth, yet she still felt no pain. The emperor, however, appeared holding his face. She was bullied again and again in the palace, but the emperor always rescued her at the crucial moment. The little palace maid trembled. Had the emperor fallen for her? What was she supposed to do? She was still waiting to leave the palace when she turned twenty-five! The emperor gritted his teeth and gripped her wrist. “You’re imagining things. I’d rather kill you.” At first, she wanted to leave the palace. Later, she decided that being a favored concubine and coasting through life wasn’t so bad. Until one day, the two of them were ambushed. When she was stabbed in the chest, memories of her previous life suddenly came flooding back. “You shameless dog of an emperor! Can’t you tell I’m sick of you?” [Concubine ranks: Empress, Imperial Noble Consort, Noble Consort, Consort, Concubine, Noble Lady, First-Class Attendant, Second-Class Attendant]