The Solitary Phoenix: The Bedside Slave Is the Emperor's Beloved

[Strong heroine in a historical romance + Contending for supremacy in a chaotic age + Taking by force + Dotingly protective love + Mechanical engineering + Her pampered husband begs for mercy]

She is Shen Yuxin, the “She-Devil” who commands the weapons of the realm, and the only prince of the Great Zhou dynasty who bears a different surname from the imperial family.

Everyone says she is hideously ugly and bloodthirsty.

One day, her subordinates bring back a group of handsome men from a “piglet” camp in Jiangnan.

Among the trembling men, her eye falls on Xia Zhiyao, a frail, white-clad youth secretly repairing a battered repeating crossbow.

He is a fallen scion of an aristocratic family, and a mechanical genius rarely seen in a century.

She drags him back to camp and pins him against a weapons rack, her rough fingers caressing his fair cheek.

“Either build a repeating crossbow for me, or become my bed-servant.”

She claims his talent and his body in the most domineering way, yet when the enemy attacks, she shields him with her own body, her armor stained with blood. “What belongs to me, who dares touch?”