The Timid Little Darling Enters the Palace, and His Majesty Panics

[Palace and household intrigue + sweet, timid heroine + obsessive emperor + emperor’s long road to winning her back + ruthless possession + doting romance]

Su Qinghe, the eldest legitimate daughter of the Duke of Chengen’s manor and the Empress Dowager’s niece, is a peerless beauty with the looks of a femme fatale. Inwardly, though, she’s so timid she wouldn’t dare step on an ant.

Forced to enter the palace, all she wants is to keep her head down and survive to old age.

While everyone else fights to the death for favor, she hides away in Yufu Palace, eating pine-nut candy;

while others scheme to engineer a chance meeting with the emperor, she dresses in drab clothes and only hopes he won’t look her way.

She thought she could quietly coast through life, eating her fill and waiting for death. But the iron-blooded tyrant, rumored to be ruthless and free of desire, begins looking at her in a very different way.

Pretend to be ill to avoid his favor?

That very night, the tyrant climbs in through the window and pins her to the bed. His voice hoarse, he says, “Jiaojiao, do you really want to force me to beg you?”

Framed by someone?

The tyrant swiftly purges the entire harem, then turns back with reddened eyes and presses a ruler into her hand. “Jiaojiao, don’t cry. How about I give you my life?”

Su Qinghe trembles in terror. Help! What on earth has this emperor imagined?!

Later, the whole realm knows that the cold and merciless Emperor Jianxi is willing to bow his proud head just to coax his little empress into eating one more bite of pastry.