Adored Beauty

(Complete) Coming soon: The Duke's Wife Is So Beautiful has begun serialization. When Su Ruohua was eleven, she entered the palace as a convict's daughter. She served in the imperial harem through the reigns of two emperors, serving a favored consort until she became a consort dowager and a Seventh Prince until he became emperor. She had planned to leave the palace once she came of age, but the new emperor set his sights on her. Her heart leapt, and she slipped out of the palace with the consort dowager. However, the emperor refused to let her go. He chased her down, hauled her back into the palace, and installed her as a favored consort. As a prominent figure in the harem, she can do just about anything, but she has no idea how to be a favored consort herself, much less give birth to a crown prince! The other consorts watch her like hawks. How could a lowly palace maid bear the emperor an heir? Years later, Su Ruohua becomes the most powerful woman in the imperial harem. The emperor has three palaces and six courtyards, but this is a true one-on-one romance, with both leads' first times. Reader's guide: The palace maid who is the emperor's sole favorite; from palace maid to imperial noble consort; the heroine is alluring and captivating; childhood friends with the emperor; the daily life of the emperor's favorite; the heroine is a schemer. A little palace intrigue, mostly romance. The setting is fictional, in an imaginary era. The palace maid sections are partly based on A Record of Palace Maids' Lives. A recommendation for my friend's story, The Substitute Has Moved On, about a shameless substitute's triumphant comeback~ By Chang Gou Luoyue The Duke's Wife Is So Beautiful (Reborn) Song Tao'er had two men in her life. One was the peerlessly handsome heir of the Duke's household, her husband by an arranged marriage. The other was the stern, violent Marquis of Zhongjing, her husband's fourth uncle. In their presence, she was as insignificant as someone fallen in the mud. After a lifetime of love and hate, she died alone and ill in a quiet corner of the Duke's estate. Reborn, she wants only to stay away from the men beyond her reach and live a quiet, peaceful life. But they have no intention of letting her go. In his previous life, Zheng Hanyu fought for his country, spending years on the battlefield and earning great military honors. Everyone said he was a ruthless killer, hard as iron, an ill-starred man who brought death to his wives and children, and that was why he never married. But he could never forget the woman who was the only one willing to approach and care for him when he was gravely ill. Her gentle, shy eyes stayed with him, impossible to forget. In the end, they became a scar on his heart. So he decided that in this life, he would take her for himself, even if she had once been his nephew's wife. Theme: Support one another, help each other through life's difficulties, and pursue a better life.