Bamboo and Willow Sway in the Wind

Looking for an Elegant Historical Chinese Romance Without Outlandish, Over-the-Top, or Brain-Dead Tropes

I want something with elegant, delicate writing. Not the kind that opens with someone getting disfigured or having their heart cut out. That's too melodramatic and clumsy. And no side characters like concubine-born daughters or female antagonists publicly attacking the heroine at banquets. People like that wouldn't survive three hours in ancient times unless they were faking their deaths. It's so unrealistic.

Male Rivalry, It Has to Be Male Rivalry: All Kinds of Love Triangles and Iconic Moments

Looking for books similar to "Darn It! Why Are All These Guys the Eldest Princess's Fish? (A Thousand Years of Joy)".

A Female Lead From the Martial World, Palace Mistress of a Great Sect, and a Male Lead Who Is a Prince With Power Over the Court