The Eastern Palace's Hidden Treasure

[Scheming Crown Prince x Timid Little Sweetheart, A Sweet Romance] The current Crown Prince was strikingly handsome, cultivated and refined, with a gentle temperament. This proper gentleman was accidentally caught in the act by Qu Ningxi. The corner of his lips lifted. Nonchalantly, he snapped the neck of the palace maid who was a spy with his bare hands. The wickedness in his eyes made him seem like an entirely different person from the one she knew, leaving Qu Ningxi panicked. It was over. She had seen through his disguise... As the niece of the step-empress, she and the Crown Prince were natural enemies. To stay alive, she trembled as she lied, claiming she had admired him for years. Qu Ningxi managed to survive, but the threat had not gone away. She watched this flawless Crown Prince and saw the coldness and ruthlessness within him, as he toyed with her like a cat playing with a mouse. Even when he was poisoned... "Come here." Pei Yingxiao's teardrop mole was a vivid red. His deep gaze settled on her as he slowly rubbed away the bead of blood on his fingertip. Qu Ningxi burst into tears! Later, she somehow became the Crown Princess. Everyone said the step-empress had played a brilliant move by sending her own niece into the Eastern Palace. The Crown Prince was as radiant and upright as the moon, returning home every day and never getting involved with other women. The noble ladies were green with envy. Only Qu Ningxi knew how domineering he was, how his intelligence bordered on the inhuman, and how dark and dangerous he was beneath that mask. 1. A little coercive romance. The male lead is only wicked to the female lead. 2. The female lead spends every day thinking of ways to soothe him. Coming soon: The Beloved Lady [Brooding Ninth Imperial Uncle x Wealthy, Cheerful Young Lady] Yi Changyue, raised on the borderlands, returned to the capital to find a husband. She had the emperor's favor and plenty of money, and she spent it generously. Her collateral relatives in the capital were left speechless. Her parents had guarded the frontier and earned great military honors, but no one had heard that they had struck a gold mine. On an outing to admire the flowers, Yi Changyue caught sight of a lovely view by the lake. In a moment of delight, she bought a boat. The boat soon saved a princess who had fallen into the water, and Yi Changyue was rewarded with several gold ingots. She made back her money and then some. Her cousin fell for a performer and wanted to open a theater, but lacked the funds. Yi Changyue handed him a stack of silver notes. "Go ahead. Your little sister loves music too." The two suckers thought their investment would be a total loss, but the theater became a hit, with every seat filled. Everyone said the Yi family's young lady was a fairy who scattered wealth, and people came flocking. A peddler held up a broken wooden hairpin, weeping and spinning a pitiful tale as he asked for an exorbitant price. He was obviously a fraud. Yi Changyue paid him, and now she was going to lose out. Unexpectedly, the ancient hairpin had quite a history. Hidden inside was half a treasure map, and it even drew the attention of the exalted Ninth Imperial Uncle. Qin Fuzhi handed her the other half with a gloomy expression. "You dig it up." Qin Fuzhi was born posthumously. By the time he was born, the emperor was his older brother, whom he had never met. From the time he could remember, his deranged mother had abused him. He caught smallpox at five, was sent as a hostage at seven, and contracted a plague at twelve. Later, he joined forces with his imperial nephew to help him ascend the throne, only to be poisoned by a rare toxin on the eve of dawn. The new emperor rewarded him for his achievements with a fief so vast it violated the ancestral laws. Yet less than three days later, news came that an earthquake had devastated the region. Qin Fuzhi had always been unlucky, but after meeting Yi Changyue, he started turning misfortune into fortune. He stopped taking his medicine, and he was back in action. When he heard the young lady was looking for a husband, he immediately brought his vast fief and married into her family. Everyone was in an uproar. The new emperor hesitated. "Imperial Uncle..." Qin Fuzhi lifted an eyelid. "Your Majesty, she's an only child." No more needed to be said about the importance of that. The Yi family gained a domineering live-in son-in-law, with an imperial decree granting him a fief inheritable for three generations. Yi Changyue grew even richer. There was no end to the money she could spend. Qin Fuzhi said, "So that Little Yi Bao can be born soon, we must share a bed on the first and fifteenth of every month." "Wha..." He had already picked out the child's name? Later, he clung to her every night and refused to leave. "I married into the Yi family. Sleeping in separate rooms would make me lose face." (The male lead is a legendary poison-resistant king. He is not up to much at first.) Theme: Never give in.