Crossing the Line

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[Blurb One]

Pei Su, the favored consort who reigns supreme over the entire imperial harem, recently got an unusual new toy. A palace selection candidate who can barely speak somehow catches her eye. She plans to treat her like a cat or dog, playing with her for a while, then give her a flogging or have her stripped and executed when she gets bored. But she never gets to have her flogged. Instead, they become... mahjong buddies. Pei Su, notorious for her terrible luck, wins a heavenly hand for the first time!

So it's true that fools do get lucky...

[Blurb Two]

By a twist of fate, Han Ruoyu takes the place of her two older sisters and enters the palace. She wants to keep her head down and live a quiet life, but as soon as she arrives, she gets on the wrong side of the person she should never have offended: the favored consort of her generation, Pei Su.

Han Ruoyu has spent her whole life being careful and cautious, an invisible person wherever she goes. Even when she catches someone's eye, they can never find fault with her. But Consort Pei always seems to find something about her she dislikes. Her gaze seems to say, "Should I have her flogged, or have her flogged...?"

Pei Su: "...What are you thinking about all day? Get over here and rub my shoulders!"

Han Ruoyu: "Yes!"

[Content warnings]

1. A posturing, masterfully arrogant harem's number-one favorite consort x a stuttering newcomer to palace life who plays the pig to eat the tiger

2. Fictional imperial harem. Please spare me, historical accuracy enthusiasts.

3. The early story focuses on sisterly affection. Later, after escaping the palace, new developments will follow!

4. Weibo: @Zhang Duole. Feel free to ask when the next chapter is coming, chat, or come hang out!

*Next novel seeking advance bookmarks: "Blasphemy"

Jiang Maolian is the famous beauty who sells tofu in the surrounding villages. She has a bad reputation, partly because she always has wild men around her, and partly because she's unmarried but has a deadweight in tow.

When Jiang Maolian brings Yin Xian home, the fourteen-year-old boy looks like a ten-year-old runt. She didn't raise him from infancy, but she thinks she's treated him very well, giving him whatever he wants and never letting him go hungry. She even paid for him to attend a private school and learn skills. The boy has done her proud, earning a title that brings honor to her name, and he's dutiful too. Maolian is delighted, thinking she's finally about to enjoy a good life, until one day...

The brat uses everything she taught him against her!

Not only does he turn her into a human medicine experiment and do all sorts of unspeakable things with her, he spouts shameless, immoral nonsense about love!

What a waste of all those books he read!

Yin Xian has never thought of Jiang Maolian as his foster mother. He didn't before, he doesn't now, and he never will.

At most, he calls her sister, and only in front of outsiders. In private, he's done every vile, inhuman thing that would make even the Buddha cover his face. So why does she still treat him like a child???!!!

Jiang Maolian treats him very well. He knows that, and he knows he's ungrateful and heartless.

But he doesn't want the stars or the moon. He only wants her to be his wife.

Is that so hard???

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Jiang Maolian doesn't understand. I gave him a brilliant future and a perfect life. What could he possibly be unhappy about? And when did he... grow up all wrong???

Yin Xian can't understand it either. She spoils me and dotes on me so much. How could she not love me?

Theme: You're my sister, you're my Babe~