Your Majesty's Little Thieving Maid Ran Away. Catch Her and Kiss Her as Punishment

Yun Miaomiao was born a beggar. She made a living on the streets by dressing up as a rich young lady and making up stories, snatching silver whenever she got the chance, and pretending to be a fortune-teller to predict people's fortunes. Her greatest dream was to have enough to eat every day!

One day, she was impersonating the emperor's favorite concubine to trick a rich young master out of his purse. Just as she was really getting into her story, a guard grabbed her and shoved her into the line of beauties being presented to the emperor, to fill out the tribute of women.

Yun Miaomiao regretted entering the palace on her very first day. Ao Jin interrogated the women sent as tribute by enemy states one by one. She escaped trouble by pretending to be a goddess descended from heaven, and later became a palace maid serving before the emperor. There were countless rules at court, and Yun Miaomiao was afraid of losing her head every day. Even worse, the supposedly woman-averse emperor sitting on the throne seemed to have a bad temper. To keep her head, she started stealing things from the imperial desk, saving up silver to escape the palace and live well with her beggar friends. When the emperor discovered what she was doing, he surprisingly didn't punish her. She thought he was using her as a spy from an enemy state.

She didn't know that...

When Ao Jin was nine, he had been sent to live with a farming family to avoid palace intrigue. He recognized her as the daughter of the family that had taken him in.

He secretly protected this little palace maid.

She knelt quickly, was sincerely afraid, and stole without a trace of shame. Ao Jin was so furious his teeth hurt, and he often made her cry and beg for mercy.

Noble Consort Rong watched them with hostile intent. Yun Miaomiao only wanted to eat her fill and keep her head.

One thought she was fighting to survive in the palace. The other was secretly trying to keep a wife...