Why Fight for His Favor? The Empress Has Already Made the Emperor Her Little Brother

[Unconventional palace intrigue + lavishly favored at first, then his sole favorite + doted on by everyone] Su Xiaoxiao is a notorious street thug in the capital. She saves a handsome young man on the street, only to hear that she has to enter the palace as a consort. The sky is falling! She knows she isn’t clever enough to outmaneuver the noble young ladies raised by powerful families, so she enters the palace prepared to die. But fortune is on her side: the handsome young man she saved on the street turns out to be the emperor. Su Xiaoxiao immediately starts holding him to his moral obligations. “We agreed I could call you my underling. You have to keep me safe in the palace.” Before long, she takes it further. “Give me money.” “Take me out of the palace.” “Hey, underling! Get him for me!” “...” In the sixth year of Xie Yan’s reign, his first incognito visit brings him face-to-face with Su Xiaoxiao, disguised as a man. It wouldn’t have mattered much that she saved his life. But then a daughter of the Su family enters the palace. He thinks he should protect her, just a little. But before long, she’s got him wrapped around her finger. Later, Xie Yan thinks: It’s not so much that she’s clinging to him as that he fell for her from the moment they met. Content warning: Neither lead is the other’s first sexual partner.