Palace Intrigue's Wicked Jade

Xia Xiaoyu was born into poverty and sold from one person to another. After great difficulty, she became a first-class maid in a wealthy household, only for the Rong family to be confiscated.

To avoid becoming a government slave, she bribed the guards and switched identities with a young maid who had died and was meant to enter the palace.

Life in the Laundry Bureau was hard: endless clothes to wash and endless abuse to endure.

Just as she was about to give up, she met the eldest young master of the Rong family, the person she had once served and looked up to.

Once, he was a peerless young master, pure and refined; she was an uncultured little maid from a humble background.

Now, he was a crippled man fallen on hard times, and she was a downtrodden, pitiful woman.

Their stations were equal now. They were suited for each other.

But before she could ask him to become her companion, he caught the eye of the palace's chief eunuch and became a favorite of the emperor.

Xia Xiaoyu looked at her hands, wrinkled from soaking in water, and burst into tears. Resentment and malice spread through her heart.

She would not be the only one trapped in the mire.

So she curried favor and fawned on others in every way, finally winning an opportunity from the matrons to enter the Palace of Gathered Elegance and serve the young women newly admitted to the palace.

From palace maid to favored consort and then empress dowager, she watched familiar faces come and go. Trapped within the palace walls, with their endless road of blood, she could never escape.

But at least she could keep her white moonlight by her side forever.

If she was mired in filth, Rong Muzhi would never remain spotless either.

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Rong Muzhi went from being heaven's favored son to a mutilated man.

When he had lost all hope, Xia Xiaoyu's unwavering admiration rescued him from the abyss.

But at the time, his whole heart was set on revenge and clearing his family's name.

When he looked back, the woman he loved had changed, and her devotion was gone.

When she ordered him around arrogantly, the sorrow she could not hide in her eyes moved him.

He set aside his pride. Whether in heaven or in hell, he would stay by her side.

*The female lead is not a virgin; the male lead is a eunuch.

*The female lead is no saint.

Theme: With you, even the abyss is filled with light