A Beauty Hidden in the Boudoir

[Content Warnings: This is the author's first novel, the writing is not great, and some of the setting may be illogical. If you're willing to give it a try, read a few chapters first. If it's not for you, click away. Please don't argue!]

Novel blurb: Everyone knows that the eldest legitimate daughter of the Lu family, whose father is a Vice Minister, is a peerless beauty. But no one expected Lu Qingzhu, the neglected concubine-born daughter, to undergo a complete transformation and gain the graceful bearing and stunning looks to rival her legitimate elder sister.

The person her whole family had never even looked at properly one day won the favor of a noble from the imperial family.

Rumors say this noble suffers from a hidden ailment, but that doesn't stop Lu Qingzhu from rising from a lowly branch to become a phoenix.

A proposal, a wedding, and it's all settled in one fell swoop!

One day, Lu Qingzhu lounged on a couch by the window, watching the man dutifully peel an orange for her. In a sweet voice, she asked, "I heard a foreign princess has taken a fancy to you?"

He silently looked up and denied it in a righteous tone. "Nonsense. Everyone knows I'm ill!"

"Is that true or not?"

"It's true according to the rumors..." He suddenly leaned closer, a dark glint in his eyes, and said with an enigmatic smile, "But whether I'm really ill or not, don't you know?"

* One-on-one romance, faithful to each other, happy ending.

* The side plot features a danmei couple. If that's not for you, click away.

* The extra chapters are posted separately. See the author's profile.

* Don't argue!!! If it's not for you, click away. Click away. Click away!

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Ongoing novel: The Princess Is a Sickly Beauty. Now long enough to binge!

The beloved Yijia Princess Zhao Rushang, born to wealth and nobility, died on the eve of her nineteenth birthday.

Ravaged by illness and beyond the help of medicine, she closed her eyes with helplessness and resentment.

When she opened them again, Zhao Rushang was astonished to find herself back three years in the past. Her health was still holding, and she had not yet reached the point of no return.

The new imperial physician assigned to her followed her everywhere with a stern face, insisting that he would cure her within two years.

Zhao Rushang glanced sideways at him. He was certainly handsome, but why was he so persistent?

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A new imperial physician joined the Imperial Medical Bureau. Handsome but unsmiling, he went straight to the palace to curry favor with the beloved Yijia Princess.

Everyone scoffed, saying he was after wealth and status, and was vain and ambitious.

But Physician Pei did seem to have some skill. The princess's chronic illness, which had resisted treatment for years, gradually began to heal.

Then one day, an imperial edict arrived, and this little-known physician was suddenly made the princess's consort.

Everyone: ???

No one knew that Physician Pei, skilled in medicine and now the princess's consort, had devoted himself heart and soul to treating Zhao Rushang's illness across both of his lifetimes.

* Faithful to each other, slow-burn romance, fictional setting.

* Upcoming historical romance, Knowing Your Heart: older woman/younger man, senior palace maid × young emperor

The day the Dowager Consort found Zhiyi in the snow and brought her back to the palace, Zhiyi secretly vowed to serve her for the rest of her life.

The Dowager Consort taught her, little by little, how to survive in the palace. Zhiyi lived up to her expectations and became the head maid of Cian Palace at eighteen.

Rumors spread that the Dowager Consort had taken her in to prepare her as a woman for the emperor, someone to send to his bed in the future.

Zhiyi braced a hand on her waist, amused. The current emperor was still a little boy, about as tall as she was, so there was no way she would ever enter his harem.

Then one day, Zhiyi suddenly realized that the boy had grown into a man. Clad in imperial robes and standing tall, he came to confront her in a fury.

The young, green emperor had turned into a big bad wolf. Zhiyi felt that perhaps she'd misjudged him from the start...

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Nan Yin, who ascended the throne at a young age, believed he had seen beautiful women of every sort. Zhiyi barely counted as one of them, and he hated that heartless woman who never understood romance!

But when it came time to choose a consort, he thought the Zhang family's daughter was too thin, not as curvaceous as Zhiyi. The Wu family's daughter was too naive, not as considerate as Zhiyi. The Li family's daughter was too unruly, not as steady as Zhiyi.

After comparing them all, he resigned himself to following the Dowager Consort's advice and reluctantly took Zhiyi as his consort. But how dare this arrogant woman look down on him for being young?

The emperor's dignity was deeply wounded. Nan Yin decided to go all the way: he shut her in his bedchamber and showed off his flawless physique.

Zhiyi covered her face. "Well, the emperor is just young..."

'The southern wind knows my heart, and blows my dreams to Xizhou.'

The heroine is three years older than the hero. A woman three years older brings a fortune~

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Historical danmei, The Long Winds Stretch for Ten Thousand Miles, now underway. Please add it to your collection~

Xie Yan enlisted at fourteen. Arrogant and unruly, he spent ten years on the battlefield and returned in triumph.

On the very same day, the enemy nation sent a hostage. The entire court said he was a handsome, gentle, and courteous young man.

Only Xie Yan knew that he wasn't a gentle young man, but a vicious wolf hiding his fangs.

* Neither the gong nor the shou is a pushover. Dual perspectives, one-on-one romance, happy ending.

Arrogant, flamboyant, rebellious gong × seemingly gentle but actually cruel, sickly shou

Theme: Growing through adversity, staying true to one's original aspirations, and finding success and happiness!