The Side Consort Is Soft and Sweet, but the Cold Crown Prince Can't Hold Back

Though Shen Tingyun is the legitimate daughter of a marquis’s household, she lives worse than even one of its servants.

Her father’s cold indifference, her stepmother’s poisonous schemes, and her sister’s bullying form a deadly net.

Her life is in their hands.

But she doesn’t want to die. She wants to live!

So she turns their schemes against them, ruins her sister’s dreams, and seduces the aloof, proud Crown Prince.

In the deep darkness of night, Shen Tingyun rushes into Xie Qinghuai’s arms like a frightened fawn.

“Please, my lord, spare me…”

After one night, she becomes the lowest-ranking consort in the Eastern Palace, and the Crown Prince even cures her blindness.

Shen Tingyun thinks she can finally catch her breath, but she never expected the Eastern Palace to be a battlefield without blades in sight.

The arrogant and domineering Liangyuan, the Crown Princess who has suddenly turned vicious… One after another, they all want her dead.

That’s all right. She has the Crown Prince.

She throws herself into his arms and sobs, “Your Highness, they’re all bullying me.”

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After a scheme goes awry, Xie Qinghuai takes Shen Tingyun into the Eastern Palace as a consort on a moment’s impulse.

He considers himself free of desire and uninterested in romance, but whenever he sees Shen Tingyun with tearful eyes, pretending to be strong, he can’t help stepping in to protect her.

Only later does he slowly realize that this seemingly harmless “little white rabbit” is probably putting on her helpless act and showing her grievances as part of a scheme.

But so what?

He is perfectly willing to indulge her.

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Over the course of three years, Shen Tingyun becomes the favored consort whom the Crown Prince treasures in the palm of his hand.

When the new dynasty begins, she rises to become the exceptionally favored Noble Consort Zhao, holding the emperor’s exclusive devotion in her hands, while her fate also…