Synopsis
(My next book, Beloved Consort, Adored by Thousands, is about a spoiled, petulant consort x a cunning, lovesick, wolf-in-sheep's-clothing emperor. Please add it to your reading list!)
Sunshiney, scheming, black-hearted sweetheart VS gloomy, insecure, sensitive, disabled prince
Because of a fateful meeting in their youth, Wei Yanxi works hard to rein in her nature. She takes charge of the household, studies business and the arts, and devotes herself to medicine, becoming the most distinguished young lady in the imperial capital. She stages a plot involving a fall into the water and a false accusation of adultery, all so she can marry the Prince of Puyang.
After entering the prince's household, Wei Yanxi tries every trick in the book to tempt him, hoping to cure his leg.
He is a tree that has been withering for a long time, and at last he meets the rain that nourishes his branches, heedless of the cost.
Note: One-on-one, both are virgins, clean romance.
Please add my next book, Beloved Consort, Adored by Thousands, to your reading list!
A cautious, sweet, and obedient young lady in the early story, later spoiled into a dazzling, capricious favorite consort x an outwardly gentle and virtuous young emperor who is actually a cunning, lovesick, possessive madman starved for affection
(Palace intrigue + not mutually chaste before rebirth, exclusive devotion after rebirth + male lead reborn + doted on from the beginning + not a strong female lead + coming-of-age romance)
Wen Litang spends eighteen cautious years as an unloved daughter of a general's household, then enters the palace in her sister's place and is made an Eighth-Rank Talented Lady.
But two days later, news arrives that the general's household has been accused of treason and executed to the last, with her the sole survivor.
Wen Litang only wants to use her eighteen years of experience as an invisible person to keep surviving in the palace. She never expected that, before being summoned to the emperor's bed the next day, she would be promoted several ranks to become Consort Rou, an unprecedented honor!
What?! Is the emperor trying to make an example of her by throwing her into the spotlight and making her a target of everyone's hatred?
Wen Litang is terrified...
On her first night with the emperor, the young emperor Yan Tanchuan senses her nervousness and treats her with extraordinary tenderness, paying close attention to how she feels. It all seems like a dream... He holds her close as they share a tender, passionate night.
But after every night together, he makes her take a restorative pill.
On the second day, she must perform three bows and nine kowtows before the empress. Yan Tanchuan speaks with a voice so gentle it could drown someone: "Consort Rou will remain standing."
"You needn't kneel."
From that day on, Wen Litang has to bow to no one, not even Yan Tanchuan.
Seeing the resentful looks of all the other consorts, Wen Litang becomes even more afraid...
On the third day, Yan Tanchuan changes the morning court to an evening session so he can sleep in with Wen Litang. Because she loves her afternoon naps, he changes it again to a midday session, letting him prolong the time he spends with her over dinner. He excuses Wen Litang from paying her morning respects to the empress, year after year.
At court, anyone who dares spread rumors that the bewitching consort has seduced the emperor is killed as soon as Yan Tanchuan hears of it. Officials, civil and military alike, rush to send their daughters into the palace, hoping they will become the most favored consort. Yan Tanchuan accepts them all, then turns around and gives them to Wen Litang to serve her tea and wait on her.
He helps her navigate palace intrigue, dotes on her alone, and shields her from every hardship.
Wen Litang only becomes more and more afraid...
Well, the road to raising a pampered consort is long and full of obstacles...
Yan Tanchuan has only one demand of her: no one but him may occupy her heart, not even her family or close friends. She must depend on him alone...
In his previous life, Yan Tanchuan loved Wen Litang to the depths of his soul. He suffered from a condition called Wen Litang-related skin hunger. After finally raising her into someone spoiled and precious, who did whatever she pleased, Wen Litang died in childbirth.
Yan Tanchuan was devastated, his heart damaged. He regretted every day that he had not spoiled and protected Wen Litang sooner, and, ashamed to face her, held her skirts every night to ease his longing.
He forced himself to carry on, doting on their little princess, Yan Weitang, and treating her as precious because of her mother. He sent all his other children to their fiefdoms, clearing the way and removing every obstacle. He named Yan Weitang Crown Princess and put her on the throne. Only then did he take his own life to join his beloved in death.
When Yan Tanchuan opened his eyes, he had been reborn, returning to the second day after Wen Litang entered the palace. The man stared almost madly at the familiar, living figure from his memories...
In this life, he would restore Wen Litang's old nature sooner. No one would ever hurt his Tangtang again. Wen Litang belonged to him alone, body and soul, even if that meant keeping her from their own children.
Yan Tanchuan's only limit has always been Wen Litang.
Theme: Love can overcome every hardship
