A Sweet, Soft Concubine, Coveted by the Crown Prince and the Merchant Prince

[Reborn, everyone’s favorite heroine, a battlefield of competing suitors, careful maneuvering, and no lovesick foolery]

Shen Chunjiao was beautiful and clever beyond compare, yet born a peasant girl and cast down into the dirt.

Reborn, she no longer wanted to be anyone’s wife. She wanted power in her own hands.

Sold once more into a merchant’s household, she worked tirelessly to make her way. One dance that captivated the city was enough to make the Crown Prince fall for her.

But he was a noble in the heavens, and she was lowly on earth. Even after they spent a night together, he still cast her aside like dust.

Others mocked her for dreaming above her station and currying favor with the powerful, but she seized the opportunity to win the merchant’s affection.

The merchant had meant to keep her tucked away, but she bewitched him. He went to great lengths to place her before the Crown Prince and help her regain his favor.

And so the Crown Prince’s household gained a favored concubine named Jiaoniang.

Jiaoniang wanted more than to be a concubine. She coveted power over all under heaven.

The Crown Prince had first treated her as a plaything, but in the end, he worked tirelessly to raise her and her son to the highest station.

Everyone knew Jiaoniang was favored, cherished above all others.

The most exalted man thought he had done enough to win her heart back, but in a furious outburst, he cried, “How can you not love me?”

Jiaoniang fell silent. When love had always been between someone above and someone below, how could she ever give him her heart...