The Beloved Maidservant

As Prince Qin Shen Pei's personal maid, Ruoran is the envy of everyone in the manor. She gets the most monthly pay for doing the least work.

It's not that no maids have tried to take her place. They've all failed and been sent packing. The reason is simple: Ruoran is as beautiful as peach blossoms, with a slender, graceful figure, and Prince Qin likes beautiful women.

But no one knows how hard Ruoran has it. Though she's called a maid, she performs the duties of a bedchamber attendant, with no title or status. Shen Pei has no intention of giving her a title, either. Ruoran doesn't really mind. She only hopes Shen Pei will put off marrying a princess consort for a while longer, so she can save up more money and have something to rely on for the rest of her life.

Then news comes that Prince Qin is discussing a marriage alliance. When Ruoran learns his future bride is Commandery Princess Roujia, famous for her jealousy, she stares at her belly for a long time. Getting rewarded with money won't be so easy anymore. Commandery Princess Roujia will only reward her with a white silk noose or poisoned wine.

Ruoran counts her savings, bundles up her belongings, and runs away.

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Prince Qin Shen Pei is the Crown Prince's full younger brother. He is adored by all three palaces, with the elegance of a noble gentleman, but a violent and capricious temperament. He thinks women are nothing but trouble, and the only one he has ever taken a liking to is his personal maid.

She's gentle and considerate, clever and sweet, and never makes him go to any trouble. He keeps her around just because she's amusing.

He sets out on an inspection tour of the Eastern Sea on his father's behalf. Before he leaves, the maid who never gives him a moment's worry timidly asks him to bring back a pearl. Shen Pei agrees with a cold expression. He stays in the Eastern Sea for over ten extra days, just to find the biggest pearl he can. But when he returns to the capital with it, he learns that Ruoran has run off with his money.

Shen Pei gives a cold laugh. The splendid pearl turns to dust in his rage.

At first, he treats her as a runaway slave and announces that the authorities should bring her back. Then he worries the officers might be careless and hurt Ruoran, so he issues a secret order in the middle of the night, repeating over and over that they must not take her life.

Only then does Shen Pei understand: women are trouble, but Ruoran is the exception.

A little scene:

A beautiful widow arrives in Nanshan Town, radiating charm and accompanied by a child. People say there's always trouble outside a widow's door, but no one ever bothers her, because everyone knows her late husband was a border soldier who gave his life defending the country.

When Shen Pei finally finds Ruoran after a long separation, he looks at the little bundle in her arms and grits his teeth. "I hear you've been telling everyone I'm dead?"

Ruoran widens her eyes and shakes her head repeatedly. "No. I only said you'd gone to fight at the border and never come back..."

She never said he was dead.

Shen Pei: "..."

The male lead has no wife, no first love, and no sweetheart. He only has the female lead.

One-on-one romance

Proud, love-clueless dog of a prince X carefree little money-grubber

He falls first, then has to win her back the hard way.

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Coming soon:

"Spring in the Brocade Palace": Sickly Crown Prince X frail concubine

In the spring of the twentieth year of Jinglong, Lin Lu, daughter of a minor sixth-rank official, is chosen as a concubine to the Crown Prince.

Before she enters the palace, her family repeatedly reminds her that, for her father's and brothers' futures, she must serve the Crown Prince well. She must not defy him or act unruly, and she must never take advantage of his favor to become arrogant.

Lin Lu takes her family's lessons to heart. After entering the palace, she keeps to herself and stays out of the competition.

Crown Prince Rong Jin is handsome and dignified, with the bearing of a phoenix and the appearance of a dragon. Outside the palace, however, he's known for cruelty, bloodlust, and a violent, reckless temper. He chose Lin Lu as a concubine simply because she was gentle, timid, and cute. He thought she'd make a nice diversion.

But even he never expected that, as they came to know each other better, he would fall sincerely in love with the timid beauty who cries so easily.

The following spring, an imperial decree arrives, announcing that a consort will be chosen for Rong Jin. Among the candidates is his maternal cousin, who grew up with him.

On the day of the selection, the Crown Prince and his cousin play a duet on the qin and xiao. Everyone praises them as a match made in heaven. Lin Lu sits in the very last seat, gazing at the pair above her. When she sees the affection in Rong Jin's eyes, she understands for the first time what it means to have your heart die.

The love they shared in the past vanishes like mist. She was the one who grew greedy and wanted what she shouldn't have.

Thinking about her current situation, she realizes that, as the only woman the Crown Prince has ever favored, she'll undoubtedly be made an example of once the Crown Princess enters the palace.

That night, Rong Jin searches the Eastern Palace from top to bottom, but can't find Lin Lu anywhere. A palace maid's panicked scream comes from the distance: "Oh no! Mistress Lin jumped into the lake!"

Rong Jin's breath catches. Like a madman, he jumps into the icy lake at the beginning of winter after her.

**

Three years later, when the apricot blossoms first bloom, the new emperor makes a tour of Jiangzuo in the south. By a lake in a village, Rong Jin sees a young boy who looks rather like him.

"Where's your mother?" he asks.

"My father teaches in the village, and my mother went to bring him lunch."

Rong Jin's face turns livid. He demands furiously, "Who is your father?"

Who could be so bold as to steal even the new emperor's woman?

Second upcoming novel, "Happiness When I Meet You": Cousins, a match made by heaven

Shen Ci is the only daughter of the Shen family, military governors of Pingjiang. Born to a noble family and dearly loved by her parents, she should have lived a safe and happy life. But fate is unpredictable. Her parents die in a shipwreck, and overnight she falls from a noble young lady to an orphan with no one to rely on.

Her uncle takes pity on her, the only surviving child of his sister, and brings her to live and be raised at the Earl's residence.

Living under someone else's roof, Shen Ci is careful in everything she does, always cautious and circumspect. She serves her aunt morning and evening, willingly staying in the shadows of her older and younger female cousins and never trying to stand out. Her aunt, pleased by how sensible she is, finds her a respectable family to marry into. Though the young man is from a humble background, he's earnest and ambitious.

Shen Ci is content.

She only wants to wait quietly for her wedding day and start a family of her own as soon as possible.

But plans never keep pace with fate. She has no idea when she caught the eye of someone important, and from then on her marriage prospects become fraught and exceedingly difficult.

Pei Heng, heir to the Marquis of Yongning, comes from a noble family and is a brilliant scholar. He's the youngest top-ranking scholar in Great Qi. After being selected for the Hanlin Academy, he becomes a close aide to the emperor, with a dazzling future ahead of him.

On the day the imperial examination results are announced, his aunt extends an invitation, hoping to celebrate his success with another happy occasion by joining their two families in marriage.

Pei Heng thinks nothing of it. In his eyes, a cousin is just a cousin. How could she become his wife? But he can't refuse his aunt's warm invitation, so he reluctantly goes to a banquet at the Zhongyi Earl's residence.

He expects nothing more than to go through the motions, but unexpectedly meets a delicate beauty, as fragile as her name suggests.

For the first time, the young heir understands what it feels like to fall in love.

Cousins truly are a match made by heaven. It's just that Pei Heng falls for his cousin's cousin.

After that day, the heart of the young heir, once as still as a dead pool, begins to ripple. For the first time in his life, he schemes and plots, all to break off Shen Ci's engagement.

A sweet one-on-one romance. The male lead falls in love at first sight.

Noble young heir X frail, delicate girl

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