The Bedchamber Maid

Everyone knows that old King Qin is a womanizer. In his later years, he had a second son, Li Yu, with such exquisite features that it’s hard to tell whether he’s male or female. Li Yu is exceptionally clever. He places first in the imperial examinations at eighteen and wins the favor of the emperor. The prince’s household spoils him until he’s arrogant and fussy, and difficult to please. When Li Yu was thirteen, he followed his father’s example and bought a girl to serve him as a bedchamber attendant. He found a palace matron to teach Ning Ying how to serve people, along with proper etiquette, tea-making, reading and writing, and more. Ning Ying was eager to learn, growing into exactly the kind of woman Li Yu liked. She wore the plain white clothes he preferred, brewed the tea he liked, and cooked the dishes he enjoyed... Li Yu was very pleased with this bedchamber attendant. He was generous with her spending money, and even let her sit on his lap. Then one day, the well-behaved, dutiful attendant got the better of him and ran away. At first, Li Yu thought she was just a plaything. If he’d lost her, so be it. He could find another. But later, he could never get used to it. When he got dressed, he called for A Ying. When he wanted tea, he called for A Ying. Whatever he did, he called for A Ying. Li Yu felt terribly out of sorts. Later, while traveling south of the Yangtze on official business, a colleague took him to look for street food. By chance, Li Yu spotted a woman in a simple hairpin and skirt at a small restaurant. The woman had an ugly birthmark on her face and was bragging to her maid in private. She said she was born under an unlucky star and had caused three men to die, but her first master had been the best. He was handsome, gave her two taels of silver to spend each month, and often gifted her jewelry and fine clothes. He’d even willingly warm her bed. Naturally, the maid didn’t believe her. Li Yu watched the young woman use the pair of clever hands he had taught her to make a lovely life for herself, and jealousy turned him sour as a lemon. So after all that, he was the one who’d been treated like a plaything! #My Bedchamber Attendant Treated Me Like Her Attendant# #A High-and-Mighty Narcissist Gets Dumped and Starts Questioning His Life# #The Evolution of a Wife-Doting Man’s Self-Persuasion# #Please Don’t Lower Your Noble Head to Fall in Love with Your Bedchamber Attendant# [A clear-headed, scheming transmigrator woman × an arrogant, tsundere young nobleman] Reading guide: 1. Fictional setting, both are virgins, 1v1, happy ending. 2. Food + winning back his wife + a sweet-and-sour light comedy. Theme: Self-reliance and self-respect are the foundations for making your way in life