Transmigrated as the Discarded Crown Prince's Maid

In this top-tier groveling-romance novel, the male lead, Chu Yan, is a ruthless, unhinged villain.

He rises again after being stripped of his position as crown prince, kills his brother and his father, and ascends to the throne.

One half of his face is impossibly handsome, while the other is hidden beneath a jade-green mask. It is said that the half of his face was ruined in a great fire.

Twisted and cruel, he turns the palace into a sea of blood, then forcibly brings into the palace the female lead, who abandoned him years ago to marry another man. Together they begin a story of coercive possession and painful, passionate love.

Just as Ruan Yi is engrossed in reading the latest chapters, she transmigrates into the story and becomes an insignificant palace maid at a detached palace.

She's a disposable character who doesn't even rate as a random passerby. Her only connection to the main plot is that the male lead, Chu Yan, is imprisoned at the detached palace.

At that very moment, a great fire rages through the palace, and countless servants flee in panic.

Kindhearted Ruan Yi casually rescues a bloodied boy and carries him to safety. To her surprise, the boy is Chu Yan, the deposed crown prince, and the fire is an assassination plot targeting him.

The two drift through the streets, hiding wherever they can. They share moldy steamed buns, suffer beatings at the hands of cruel servants, hold each other for warmth in a ruined temple, and cheer with delight when they earn a few coins.

Ruan Yi stays by the boy as he summons his old followers and finally returns to the imperial capital.

From a distance, she watches the noblewoman who is there to welcome him, the female lead, and her passion for shipping the couple flares up again. She takes the boy's hand. "Go back now. I'm going home too."

"All right," Chu Yan says, momentarily stunned, then smiles.

At that moment, she fails to notice the poison of frenzied possessiveness seeping through the boy's eyes.

When Ruan Yi wakes again, she finds her limbs weak, held by the boy on the dragon throne.

Below them, the high officials and nobles kneel in rows with their hands bound. Among them is the female lead, dressed in plain white.

The boy smiles, both delirious and fragile. He leans close to her ear and whispers hoarsely, "How about I give you a grand farewell gift, Ah Yi, and pave your way home with the corpses of everyone beneath us?"

"Ah Yi?"

Theme: Love means supporting each other through thick and thin