Gu Liuchu spent her days curled up on a straw bed where the sun never reached, drowsily dozing like a lifeless sick cat.
Her stepmother said she was cursed and brought misfortune to her family. After her aunt died, her father abandoned her at the country estate, leaving her to live or die as she pleased. Even the servants there couldn't be bothered to look after her.
Then one day, a man arrived at the estate seeking lodging. His jade pendant and noble bearing marked him as someone raised in comfort.
And as someone not to be crossed.
But why did he keep coming to bother her every day, without the slightest impatience?
Gu Liuchu: Why do people have to eat and drink every day?
And bathe and comb their hair?
She only wanted to sleep.
It would be even better if she could sleep forever and never wake up.
Zong Xun: "You can't sleep this long again today."
"Be good, Chuchu. Let's go outside and walk around once more."
"You ate half a bowl more this morning. What a good girl."
The little beauty's hair fell in a dark cascade. Zong Xun had just washed it and wrapped it in a towel, and it was still damp. Her autumn-water eyes were full of confusion.
Why... would someone praise her just for eating properly?
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After the two of them had a quarrel, Zong Xun had to leave in a hurry on business. He only said he would be back as soon as he could.
But her stepmother happened to send people to the estate and forcibly took Gu Liuchu back to Luoyang.
The emperor was preparing a banquet to choose consorts for the princes. Only Prince Jin remained unmarried. They said Prince Jin was arrogant and untamable, and deeply loathed by the emperor. Her stepmother told her to attend the banquet in place of her legitimate elder sister, Gu Pingting.
That day, spring blossoms drifted on the breeze, but Gu Liuchu kept her head bowed as a long-forgotten feeling of disgust and a desire for destruction surged through her again and again.
"Your Highness, Prince Jin, what are you..."
Then she heard a familiar voice, like a pearl dropping at her feet.
"Her."
Gu Liuchu looked up in confusion. Wasn't this jade-faced man before her the very Zong Xun who had cared for her for years?
The disgraced, aloof Prince Jin became engaged to an un favored daughter of the Gu family. People mocked that they were a perfect match in status.
But no one expected Prince Jin to become the emperor.
The truth came to light: Gu Liuchu was the orphaned heiress of another Gu clan from Wu Commandery, and the Left Chancellor had adopted her as his daughter.
[Little Scene]
Years later, summer stretched on. The palace attendants were repeatedly instructed by the chief eunuch that the empress loved silence and sleep, and that no one should enter Luan Hall and disturb her without good reason.
Below the vermilion walls, the new emperor gently fanned the sleeping beauty on her couch.
His eyes and brows were soft, just as they had always been.
The whole world cast her aside like something worthless.
He treasured her as the most precious thing in the world.
#Fragile, world-weary concubine-born daughter × noble prince who dotes on his wife#
1. 1v1, single-couple romance, sweet, sweet, sweet
2. A light, doting story with a bit of a caretaker dynamic early on. The heroine isn't in a good place mentally at the beginning (
3. The hero initially only wants to repay the heroine's kindness, but gradually falls for her
Theme: Keep living!
