Imperial Noble Consort

Pure palace intrigue. The male lead’s love is one-sided, and the heroine only wants revenge. Uses the same personal headcanon as A Parasol of Wutong. Please don’t overanalyze the details. Thank you. Blurb: Everyone knows that the empress in Fengyi Palace has no children. The imperial concubines try every means to bear a child, hoping that one day they might sit on the throne. The next selection year arrives. Xu Yan, the fifth-ranked concubine Xu Huanghou’s younger half-sister, enters the palace in a sedan chair and is granted the title of Lady Xu. She holds the highest rank among the selected women. Everyone in the palace agrees that the fifth young lady of the Xu family was sent in to bear a little prince for the empress. Once she gives birth to an imperial son, no one knows what will become of her. But who could have guessed that the fifth young lady of the Xu family would eventually climb, step by step, to the throne of Imperial Noble Consort? From the moment Xu Yan enters the palace, she has only one goal: to keep the emperor’s heart firmly in her grasp, even if it means resorting to the most despicable methods. As long as she can see her noble legitimate elder sister’s face twist in pain and despair... Theme: Repay kindness with virtue, and repay injustice with justice