Your Majesty, Your Picky Little Palace Maid Is Here

(The male lead isn't chaste, but the heroine is. He dotes on her from the start.) When Gu Lanhan and Xiao Linxi meet for the first time, they're both running for their lives. At the critical moment, she shoves him in front of a blade. The second time they meet is in the Imperial Garden. She's sweeping up fallen leaves while he's flirting with a consort. She sweeps all the leaves onto him to help the consort out. Only at their third meeting does she learn he's the emperor. By then, she's a palace maid responsible for cleaning the Tai Chi Palace. The floor is slippery, and when Xiao Linxi falls, she promptly helps him up. After successfully saving the emperor, she's promoted to a senior palace maid in charge of serving tea and water. She spills a cup of tea on his sleeve. … Xiao Linxi didn't shield Gu Lanhan from the blade because the people who arrived in the end weren't pursuers, but rescuers. He knew she had nowhere left to turn, so he arranged for her to enter the palace as a maid. He just hadn't expected there to be a maid this stupid in all the world. She couldn't even sweep up leaves, and when she mopped the floor, she nearly left him half-paralyzed. Later, he thought that serving him in bed couldn't be difficult. Who knew she'd even dare to flee the palace? … Gu Lanhan leaves the palace to clear her family's name. She can't spend her whole life as the daughter of a disgraced official! Her family is finally exonerated, and the very next moment the Empress Dowager arranges her marriage to her enemy's son. In a fit of rage, Gu Lanhan wipes out her enemy's entire household. … A little mischief is fun, too much is deadly, and forcing it gets you reduced to ashes. Gu Lanhan has no interest in holding back. If she's going to stir things up, she'll bring the world crashing down. After that, Xiao Linxi spends his days either attending court and ruling as emperor or cleaning up her messes. Later, he also has to raise the three little troublemakers she gives birth to. Amid all the chaos, he wonders: what would have happened if they'd run in a different direction when they were fleeing for their lives?