The Palace Maid on the Run

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Luo Minglan transmigrates into the body of a low-ranking palace maid in the Laundry Bureau. The System tells her that if she can find a way to make the original novel's male lead turn evil, she can return to the modern world.

In the original novel, the male lead, Xiao Yan, is a noble gentleman, as pristine as moonlight. His desire to avoid conflict leads to a tragic life.

The first time Luo Minglan meets Xiao Yan, Nanny Chen is punishing her, and Xiao Yan steps in to help.

The second time, Eunuch Laixi, a servant of the Crown Prince who has long desired Luo Minglan, tries to take advantage of her in the dead of night because of her beauty.

Xiao Yan appears again and saves her.

System: Congratulations, Host. The male lead's corruption level is 30%.

The third time, the Crown Prince decides Xiao Yan is a threat and wants to eliminate him.

Luo Minglan gazes at Xiao Yan with tender affection. "Your Highness, though I was born to a lowly family, I am willing to be your blade and help you take on the Crown Prince."

As Xiao Yan gazes at the girl kneeling before him, his heart, undisturbed for years, is stirred like a stone dropped into a lake.

System: Congratulations, Host. The male lead's corruption level is 70%.

Later, when the Crown Prince competes with Xiao Yan for her, he sees the girl who had devoted herself to him throw herself into the Crown Prince's arms.

Ding! Host, you've finally succeeded. The male lead's corruption level is 100%.

But just when Luo Minglan thinks she can go home, the System malfunctions, leaving her on the run.

Six months later, the throne has changed hands, and Xiao Yan finds her again.

She sees Xiao Yan clad in armor, his sword stained with blood, and looks at him as if she's seen a ghost.

He pinches her chin with icy fingers, his voice so gentle it sends a chill through her: "Lan'er, if you deceive me, you'll pay the price. Let me think carefully about how to punish you, shall I?"

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Blurb:

Shen Shu is the illegitimate daughter of a man and his mistress. Blessed with beauty from a young age, she was finally brought into her father's household at six, after he reluctantly agreed.

Her father is a wealthy man in Jinling. She has three older sisters and an older brother.

Her brother doesn't seem very friendly. He often wears a cold expression, as if he doesn't like her.

Her mother tells her that her brother was born to the principal wife, who dislikes her mother, and by extension, dislikes her too.

Shen Shu is well-behaved and perceptive. To make sure she can stay in the Shen household, she often acts sweet and tries to make her brother happy.

Until one day, she notices that her brother looks at her strangely.

Shen Shu is inexplicably afraid.

From then on, she dares not be alone with her brother and finds all sorts of excuses to avoid him.

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Wang, the scholar who makes his living selling calligraphy and paintings on the next street, has been in love with Shen Shu for a long time. But because he is poor, he can only keep his feelings hidden.

One day, Shen Shu accidentally learns how Wang feels and offers to marry him. She has only one goal: to leave her older brother and the Shen family.

Just as Shen Shu believes she can live a peaceful life and escape her nightmare for good, she has no idea that the real nightmare is only beginning.

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On the eve of her wedding, her mother leaves behind a letter and disappears.

Her father, who has always been gentle and amiable, curses her mother as a shameless woman and turns against Shen Shu as well.

Everyone in the household looks at her strangely. From one of her sisters, she learns that she is not a daughter of the Shen family at all. She was born to her mother and some man, and even her mother doesn't know who he is.

At night, the nightmare returns. This time, there is nowhere left to run.

Candlelight falls across the man's striking features, making him look like a demon who could bewitch the world.

Shen Shu trembles with fear, clutching her clothes to her chest as tears fall from her eyes. "Brother Shaoheng, please..."

Behind the red curtains, her tear-streaked face is like a pear blossom in the rain. He kisses away her tears. "Xiaogu, aren't I your brother?"

Shen Shaoheng pants and sneers. "Your brother can treat you well too. Why marry someone else? Why not consider me? Hmm?"

"Xiaogu, you haven't been good. You need to be punished..."

Reading guide: Possessive love, melodramatic fake-sibling romance, a second male lead, and a male lead whose love goes unrequited.

A familiar story of you running and me chasing, where you can't escape even if you had wings. The heroine will run away again later.

Theme: Become strong enough to save others