The Noble Consort Has More Children, More Blessings, and the Emperor Spoils Her

[Palace Intrigue + Favored by the Emperor Early On, His Only Favorite Later + The Female Lead Is Stunningly Beautiful, Attracting the Emperor with Her Looks; Beautiful and Ruthless, She Quickly Strikes Back at Anyone Who Harms Her]

Chu Lianyi is an illegitimate daughter from a collateral branch of the Chu family. Her father doesn't care for her, and her stepmother despises her.

Yet she has an eye-catching beauty, with a lovely face and bewitching charm.

Unwilling to be treated like an object and handed off to someone else by her father, Chu Lianyi decides to leave the Chu family.

Just then, her cousin, a consort in the palace, sends word that she is unwell and wishes to summon the young women of her family to visit.

Chu Lianyi knows her chance has come.

If staying at home means being given away, she might as well win over the most powerful person in the world herself.

She makes her eldest sister, who is always targeting her, catch a chill, and gives her second sister, who mocks her, a strange illness. At last, she secures a chance to enter the palace.

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Once inside, Chu Lianyi applies rouge, paints her lips, and dresses with care.

At her first meeting with the emperor, she gets him to praise her in person: "A peerless beauty."

Chu Lianyi knows she has chosen the right path.

After winning the emperor's favor, Chu Lianyi is kept in the palace.

In less than two months, she is pregnant.

At first, the emperor is cold and imposing, while Chu Lianyi charms him with all her might, tender as flowing water, until he finally holds her in the palm of his hand.

Later, he says to her in person, "Lianyi, you are the only one fit to be empress."