Transmigrated into the Eastern Palace as a nobody, Shen Pan’er has only one rule for survival: stay away from the crown prince and stay alive.
But when she sees with her own eyes the radiant crown prince deposed, poisoned, and blinded, then tossed into the imperial mausoleum like a stray dog, her heart softens anyway.
He bites her wrist when she gives him medicine, corners her against the wall when they seek warmth, and catches her fingertips when she changes his bandages. Though he seems down and out, this man can still claim her as his own with uncanny precision, even when he cannot see.
“The first thing I’ll do when my eyes are healed,” he murmurs, brushing her trembling lashes, “is find out who had the audacity to wait on me like this.”
[Reader’s Guide]
1. A deposed crown prince, shrewd and calculating × a maid with an overwhelming will to survive
2. The male lead is ruthless and irresistibly flirtatious; the female lead is timid but tough
3. Both are each other’s only partner; one-on-one romance; they save each other