The Eastern Palace's Beloved Concubine

My new novel, Zhetang, is now open. Please bookmark it! Gu Jintang knew back in Jinling that Song Tingyue had fought his way to power through the bloodshed of the battlefield. She also knew the humiliation that the Gu family of the Eastern Marquis's estate had once inflicted on him. She took every precaution to avoid him, but still ended up being sent to the prince's residence in a small sedan chair by Old Madam Gu. In this completely unfamiliar place, Gu Jintang threw a teacup at him and tried to flee, but he wrapped an arm around her waist and blocked her way, his expression scornful. "Where do you think you're going, Third Miss Gu?" * To escape the prince's residence, Gu Jintang carefully ingratiated herself with Song Tingyue and pretended to go along with him. At last she escaped her cage, but within two days, she was caught and brought back. She was thrown hard onto the bed. Looking at Song Tingyue, who stood above her, brimming with fury, Gu Jintang felt that everything was about to end. She was going to die by his hand. How could she accept that? * Song Tingyue had thought he merely regarded Gu Jintang as a pleasing plaything, free to toy with her and decide whether she lived or died. But only after learning of her death and ordering her execution did he understand what it meant to have his heart torn apart. The new emperor preferred quiet and had little interest in women. He often woke in the middle of the night and gazed at a painting that had yellowed with age, yet that person never came to him in his dreams. Content warnings: 1. An old-fashioned, melodramatic forced-marriage-and-pursuit story, with all manner of triggers, including her running away and him chasing her, faked death, and a dangerously obsessive character. The heroine suffers physically and emotionally early on, while the hero suffers later. But this is absolutely not a story about a scumbag man and a wicked woman. 2. The male lead is ruthless and forces the heroine into a relationship. He is not a good person, but his values absolutely do not reflect the author's. Feel free to hate on the male lead, but please don't personally attack the author. 3. Both leads are sexually inexperienced. One-on-one pairing. Blurb: As an unfavored concubine in the Eastern Palace, Wei Shuci only wants to get pregnant as soon as possible and settle into a comfortable retirement. To her surprise, this wish comes true in less than a year... Wei Shuci rests a hand on her slightly rounded belly, dreaming of the good life ahead, when a familiar male voice behind her interrupts her thoughts: "You used me, and now you want to turn your back on me, Young Lady Zhaoxun?" Wei Shuci: The Crown Prince has suddenly become devoted to one woman. Can I trust him? Asking online, it's urgent! Reading guide: 1. The female lead transmigrates, and the male lead is reborn. 2. After being reborn, the male lead has only been intimate with the female lead. 3. Sweet romance, happy ending. Theme: Stay positive and never forget your original purpose.