Consort Xu Xian's Daily Life in the Tang Palace

Li Shimin can solemnly swear that in the year Xu Hui first entered the palace, he saw her only as a young girl and harbored not the slightest improper thought about her. But later... how did things get so complicated? An indulgent older man x a sweet, adorable young girl. A daily-life story about raising a girl into a young woman. A parallel-universe Tang dynasty, with a nonhistorical ending. Please don't nitpick the history. Blurb for the upcoming novel, "Cover the Heavens": [1] The fifth young lady of the Yongding Marquis's household has a dubious claim to her title, but she looks delicate, gentle, and kind. In truth, she's a scheming beauty through and through. To survive under her lecherous stepfather and cold-hearted legitimate mother, Shen Shili pretends to be innocent and plays the victim. She even takes advantage of her cousin, Fu Zhiheng, who is madly in love with her, to escape the heinous crime of "killing her father." But having escaped with her life, Shen Shili has no intention of bearing Fu Zhiheng's children without a proper title or status. With the Yongding Marquis's body about to be discovered, her gaze falls on the young nobleman from the Prince Xian's household. [2] In the eyes of the world, Shen Shili is beautiful, elegant, and gentle, like a noble young lady from a distinguished family. But her former husband, Fu Zhiheng, knows that Shen Shili seems to have only one purpose in life: to rise above her station and hold absolute power. To achieve it, she doesn't hesitate to abandon him, her "benefactor," and turn the same tactics she used against her enemies on him. Fu Zhiheng resents her and hates her to the core, yet he can't stop thinking about her... Whether to take revenge or to carve himself into her life, Fu Zhiheng puts everything he has into becoming her enemy. [3] As the only legitimate son of Prince Xian, the future Crown Prince, Pei Zongqi thought he was born to have everything, apart from a healthy body. That is, until he met Shen Shili, who kept him at arm's length. No matter how hard he tries to win her and hold her in his arms, Pei Zongqi never feels he can win her heart. It's not that he hasn't noticed something is wrong with her. He's simply loved her too deeply to let go, so he lets her be. A scheming, ambitious green tea who'll stop at nothing to climb higher x a former husband who gives everything and clings fiercely to the heroine x a frail young nobleman who indulges her for love A beautiful, strong, and tragic heroine focused on her career, while the men want to talk about love. Theme: The awakening of women's consciousness in ancient times.