How Dare This Wretched Maid Keep a Pretty Boy? (Reborn Twice)

[Once I start, I'll update daily until the end!]

In the final years of Northern Han, war and famine ravaged the land. Before the city gates closed, the Yin family fled together, leaving behind an overbearing, lame concubine and a beautiful young girl named Lu'er, who stuttered and was timid.

The neighbors, usually so friendly, immediately began eyeing them like predators.

A bandit beat everyone else to her. Someone saw with their own eyes as he dragged poor Lu'er into a heap of weeds, leaving behind a horrifying sight.

From then on, the bandit, a hulking brute with a fierce face, kept Lu'er tied to his belt and took her everywhere he went. Before long, she even seemed to be pregnant, growing rounder and rounder, like a little rice dumpling.

When the chaos of war passed, the city gates reopened.

While the bandit wasn't watching, Lu'er escaped aboard a cargo boat bound for the capital.

After disembarking, she used a jade pendant she'd stolen to pose as a man and become a servant at the Snow Prince's manor. With the money she earned, she kept a pretty boy who could play the qin and was even better at spoiling her. Life was sweet indeed.

Until the master of the manor, the disabled Prince Dongfang Zhi, who was renowned for his gentle, kind nature and praised by the people, took Lu'er on as his personal attendant. Lu'er was once again living in fear.

Late at night, the study was brightly lit.

Behind the desk sat the Snow Prince, Dongfang Zhi. His beauty was breathtaking, and his dark, clear eyes made the young man grinding ink feel uneasy all over.

“Master, it's late...”

He slowly rose and strode forward, tall and straight. “You're just like your sister. The moment there's work to do, you start acting spoiled and asking to go to bed...”

Lu'er hunched her shoulders and trembled. Beneath her clothes, her increasingly obvious female body felt impossible to hide.

She regretted that the man she'd pined for across two lifetimes was the foolish bandit she'd once gone to great lengths to seduce, only to abandon.

[A dual-rebirth story]

[A pretty, calculating woman who sometimes does foolish things + a gloomy, repressed, greedy man with ruthless methods and a grudge]

Theme: Stand on your own two feet and be strong, even in adversity.