Her Majesty, Jingxian

Li Jingxian, the daughter of an ordinary official's family, passed the selection process and could only obediently be carried into Prince Shun's manor in a small sedan chair to serve as a prince's concubine.

She had no other talents. She was simply quiet and obedient, just like her name.

So after Li Jingxian entered the inner quarters, she made hardly a ripple. No one paid her any attention.

But some people are just lucky.

At the time, there weren't many attendants in Prince Shun's inner quarters. The princess consort was pregnant, Side Consort Gao was menstruating, beloved concubine Lady Zhao had caught a bit of a cold, and several other concubines had long since fallen out of favor. Prince Shun, Yonghuan, looked around and could only choose to visit the still-fresh and pretty Lady Li's courtyard.

He never expected that the woman he had favored only because there was no other choice would be raised by him, step by step, to the ranks of side consort, consort, princess, noble consort, and finally imperial noble consort.

The third prince, Yanhuai, was the eldest son of Imperial Noble Consort Li, and was later named crown prince.

From the time Yanhuai could remember, his father repeatedly told him, "Your mother isn't very clever. When she's wronged, she doesn't know how to speak up, so people can easily bully her. You have to stand strong, so you can stand up for your mother in the future. Understand?"

Yanhuai: "Yes."

His adoptive mother also often looked at him with a sigh. "You're a good child, and your mother is good too. I can't feel at ease about the others, so you have to work extra hard!"

Yanhuai obediently replied, "Yes."

But Yanhuai was still curious about how Li Jingxian had won over his cold-faced, fearsome father.

Li Jingxian thought it over, then shook her head. "I don't know. Maybe I was lucky. I had no status in the manor at first."

The emperor beside her peeled grapes for her. "...I was wrong. At first, I was the one who failed to recognize what I had."

Yanhuai: "...?"

But did Li Jingxian really know nothing? Not necessarily. She was just lucky, and everything she did happened to be right.

Reading Guide:

1. A purely historical setting with a male and female lead; there will be feudal ideas.

2. The male lead has more than one woman, but over time he will gradually devote himself exclusively to the female lead.

Theme: Strive and work hard.