【Both leads are sexually inexperienced + happy ending + salvation + young emperor and empress】
Zhaoyin has never been loved in her life.
Her birth mother resents her for nearly dying in childbirth and sends her to grow up on a country estate. Her legitimate older sister sees her as a thorn in her side, while her father treats her as a pawn to curry favor with the Prince Regent, throwing her among the powerful as a cold, calculating piece in the shadows.
She learns to smile at everyone, and to stop expecting warmth from anyone.
Until the night she enters the palace in her sister’s place.
Red candles burn bright. She kneels before the new emperor, thinking she has merely traded one cage for another.
But the young emperor suddenly grabs her wrist, pressing his fingertip hard against the tiny red mole there. His eyes redden as he looks at her.
“Miaomiao,” he says, his voice hoarse. “Have you suffered a lot?”
