The Favorite Consort Wants No Palace Scheming: Your Majesty, Please Behave

Tao Jin transmigrates as a young palace candidate in the Sheng Dynasty. All she wants is to eat, sleep, and make it safely through her time in the palace until she can leave.

She deliberately keeps a low profile during the selection, yet a lazy yawn catches the eye of the young emperor Pei Huan, whose standards are sky-high, and he picks her at once.

After entering the palace, she sticks to her motto of keeping her head down: she never competes for favor or takes sides, and spends all day thinking about food, sleep, and staying healthy.

Unfortunately, people keep going out of their way to provoke her:

Poisoning? She "accidentally" feeds the poisoned pastries to her enemy's dog. The dog is fine, but the culprit ends up behind bars.

Framing her? She puts on a show of weakness and faints right into the emperor's arms, gazing at him through tearful eyes. "Your Majesty, they're bullying me..."

Pei Huan holds the woman who looks like a little white rabbit but is really a sly little fox, the corner of his mouth lifting. "My beloved consort has suffered. I'll get even with them for you."

As her rivals fall one by one and she is unexpectedly elevated to Noble Consort, Tao Jin panics. "Your Majesty, I really don't want to fight in the palace!"

The emperor chuckles and pins her against the wall. "That doesn't matter. You're the one I want to fight."