The Delicate Beauty of the Secret Mistress

*Possessive, devoted, cool young lord x sweet, soft-headed beauty kept as a concubine

Lian Qiaoqiao has beautiful hair and a naturally seductive charm, which earns her a place as Prince Yi's concubine.

Less than a month later, Prince Yi dies. At the Princess Consort's command, Lian Qiaoqiao is taken back to the estate and dressed in mourning clothes, ready to be buried alive as a sacrifice.

That night, with nowhere left to turn, Lian Qiaoqiao kneels before the young, handsome heir to Prince Yi's title, her eyes glistening with tears. "...Please take pity on me, Your Lordship."

The heir, Yan Lingxiao, who had exiled himself to the frontier, races back to the capital day and night, intending to claim his father's beloved concubine for himself.

To his surprise, when he reunites with Lian Qiaoqiao, she is flirtatious and alluring, no longer innocent and naive as she once was. She uses every trick at her disposal to flatter and please him.

Yan Lingxiao grips Lian Qiaoqiao's slender waist so tightly that the veins on the back of his hand stand out, yet his face remains cold and arrogant. "Young Madam, please behave yourself."

People curse him, but Yan Lingxiao only sneers and remains unmoved.

He has accepted that he will spend his life entangled with Lian Qiaoqiao. Even if this is as far as they go, he is content.

He never expected that just after the imperial physician diagnosed his young concubine with a pregnancy, before Yan Lingxiao could even celebrate, he would discover that Lian Qiaoqiao had disappeared...

*Content warning: Both leads are virgins, and their relationship will be made right! Prince Yi dies at the start. The leads only begin to flirt after they are both single. Extremely melodramatic (on my knees).

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*Flirtatious, bewitching beauty x deeply calculating powerful official

Lu Xianchan was born into a family of wealth and privilege. Delicate and graceful, charming and frail, she is nonetheless notorious throughout Yingtian Prefecture for bringing death to her husbands.

The betrothed boy her family chose for her died in infancy. Her childhood sweetheart, chosen by her parents, met an untimely death. And the husband chosen by the matchmaker died of a sudden illness on their wedding night.

Worse still, her husband had a powerful younger half-brother: the Embroidered Uniform Guard's commander, He Yushu.

In a panic, Lu Xianchan flees the city to hide in a convent, only to be stopped in the street by a row of Embroidered Uniform Guards.

A man in a flying-fish robe steps out of the crowd. The tip of his embroidered spring saber lifts her chin, its cold gleam reflecting her ravishing face. He says coldly, "Take her away."

Lu Xianchan doesn't want to spend her life as a chaste widow, hated by everyone in the He family, so she knocks on her younger brother-in-law's door and brings him one bowl of sweet soup after another.

He Yushu doesn't even accept them. One ice-white porcelain bowl after another shatters outside the door. "Please leave."

Furious, Xianchan puts all her effort into making Lord He... her devoted servant.

People say He Yushu is devious, servile, cruel, and ungrateful. Surely he'll drown Lu Xianchan in a pond, then fabricate charges to execute her entire family.

They never expected that after three years of widowhood, Lu Xianchan would remarry in grand style and become the commander's wife.

"My lord." Lu Xianchan gives a graceful curtsy, tears shining in her eyes. "Aren't you afraid that my ill fate will clash with yours and bring you misfortune...?"

Commander He lifts his eyelids and gently covers the mouth that could bring the dead back to life with flesh and blood. He laughs softly. "Madam, you didn't say that when you were seducing me."

He had lived a lonely life, and only after meeting her did he learn what it meant to sweep away clouds and summon rain, to make spring bloom with a single seductive glance.

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