A beautiful, gentle sickly darling x a gloomy, arrogant Regent
Important: This is not a groveling romance. It's a sweet little love story between two people, with the heroine passing herself off as a kept woman. The male lead is chaste, with no wife or concubine. He only wants to fall in love, but the heroine is the one who says she wants to be his kept woman. She has her reasons.
Niannu is one of the most alluring women in this pleasure house. Well-read and skilled at chess, her face is more vivid than a flower in bloom, enough to make anyone's heart itch with desire.
Everyone knows that Niannu is gentle and speaks softly. It's just a pity that she is frail and the daughter of a disgraced official, fallen into a place of filth.
But no one knows that a begonia blooms brightly on her right shoulder.
No one, except the elusive Regent.
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In the summer of the fifteenth year of Jinghe, Yanchun House offends a powerful noble, and the madam who raised Niannu as her own daughter is locked up in the Court of Judicial Review.
With nowhere else to turn and on the verge of being sold, Niannu desperately begs someone she should never have asked.
Inside the carriage, the cold-faced Regent lifts his eyes slightly. "Be my kept woman. Will you regret it?"
Niannu breathes softly, tears glistening in her eyes, her voice small as a mosquito's:
"I won't."
Reading Guide
1. Both leads are devoted only to each other. A sweet little romance, truly.
2. The female lead is weak, in the literal sense.
3. The characters aren't perfect, and the plot has some holes. Please go easy on me.
Theme: Love