The White Lotus Handbook for a Concubine

In her previous life, Rong Qiang learned she was not the daughter of the Marquis of Rong's household. Terrified and uneasy, she tried to please everyone and kept her head down, only to face increasingly cruel taunts and torment until she was finally driven to her death beneath the Buddhist hall. Given a second life, Rong Qiang cast off the burdens of being a proper young lady and used her beauty as bait, becoming the pampered mistress of a powerful regent. The Marquis of Rong's household considered her wanton and shameless, a disgrace to the family. Yet cowed by the regent's power, they had no choice but to flatter and fawn over her. Even the legitimate son of the Chancellor's household, who had broken off their engagement, angrily came forward to call her shameless. Rong Qiang sneered inwardly, then turned and wept as she threw herself into the arms of her powerful patron, the regent, looking delicate and pitiful, like a little white flower trembling in the wind. That very night, someone covered the Chancellor's legitimate son's head and beat him until his face was bruised and swollen. The day after he could get out of bed, he trembled his way over to apologize to her. Everyone shook with fear. They had thought the regent had merely taken in a beautiful, delicate mistress. They never expected him to be keeping a little ancestor for the whole capital. Rong Qiang: Sob, sob. ☆ A delicate, alluring, scheming fake heiress with a pure-white-lotus facade × a cool and restrained regent deeply in love ☆ The male lead is a workaholic with no family, and the female lead is the only one for him Theme: Strive for self-reliance and keep working hard to improve