A Beauty Hidden in the Eastern Palace

[Coming soon next door: Fold the Moon into My Embrace. After she marries someone else, her secret crush loses it and goes mad.] Blurb for Spoiling the Princess (A self-restrained, proper, extremely possessive crown prince & an innocent, sweet little crybaby) Shen Ruolian was an orphan whom Crown Prince Yan Wen brought back from the battlefield. At first, the little girl was delicate and timid. Whenever her damp eyes fell on Yan Wen, they were filled with apprehension. She couldn't help stirring a tenderness in his heart. Later, Shen Ruolian was doted on and pampered in the Eastern Palace until she grew into a sweet, cheerful girl. When she came of age, Yan Wen naturally began thinking about finding her a good match, acting in his role as her elder brother. No matter how she pouted and said all she wanted was her big brother, the crown prince, he wouldn't budge in the slightest. No one knew that on the day Shen Ruolian was to become engaged to Pei Cian of the Minister of Rites' family, Yan Wen had unknowingly wandered to the door of her room and stood there for half the night. - As the heir to the throne, Yan Wen had been calm and dignified since childhood, rarely swayed by emotion. He was certain that his future crown princess would be a noblewoman, poised and gracious. But that evening, when Yan Wen saw Shen Ruolian and Pei Cian secretly holding hands in the peach grove, he felt an almost savage jealousy for the first time in twenty years. After the banquet, the crown prince stopped her in the Eastern Palace and asked her over and over, obsessively: "Do you like him, or do you like your big brother, the crown prince?" The little girl cried so pitifully that anyone would feel for her, and she said resentfully: "I like my big brother, the crown prince, the least of all!" - [Bonus scene] Pei Cian hadn't seen his "little fiancée" in a while when, one day, the crown prince summoned him to the palace for the first time. In the little garden of the Eastern Palace, Pei Cian knelt with his face to the ground, not daring to glance toward the pavilion. He knew the woman in the pavilion was the crown prince's new favorite, a recent subject of gossip. He wouldn't dream of prying into the crown prince's affairs. After a long while, the clouds cleared and the rain stopped. The crown prince came over with light steps, straightened his collar, and casually revealed the scratches on the side of his neck. With a smile, he asked as if making small talk: "The wedding date is approaching, Lord Pei. Are your preparations in order?" Pei Cian couldn't help glancing toward the pavilion, then respectfully replied: "Thank you for asking, Your Highness. Everything is ready." The crown prince nodded and smiled warmly, as if in a very good mood, before reminding him: "Excellent. I have only this one sister. You must treat her well." [The male lead is jealous from the start, and after he snaps, he forcibly takes the heroine.] [The leads are not related by blood. The heroine is not registered in the imperial genealogy, and everyone knows they are not real siblings.] [The events in the bonus scene take place before the heroine and the second male lead have finalized their engagement, which is about to be called off.] Coming soon 1: Fold the Moon into My Embrace [A sweet, adorable girl & a big bad wolf] Everyone in the capital, even the blind, could see that Jiang Zhiyue liked the third prince of Song, Song Yanci. His legs were disabled and he couldn't get around, so she ran herself ragged looking after him. In the end, she injured her own leg when his wheelchair ran over it. He liked tea brewed with morning dew, so on chilly autumn mornings, she went out to the garden before dawn to collect it herself. She caught a high fever that lasted three days. But she heard from someone else that, during those three days while she lay gravely ill, he'd gone to a countryside temple with another woman to seek a master's calligraphy. Later, barbarian tribes invaded. To secure friendly relations between the states of Jiang and Song, the emperor planned to marry Jiang Zhiyue to a prince of Song. Overjoyed when she heard the news, Jiang Zhiyue hurried off to give thanks, only to hear Song Yanci tell the emperor coolly: "My fourth brother, Song Zhiling, has loved Princess Zhiyue for years. I beg Your Majesty to grant her to him as his wife." - After the wedding, Jiang Zhiyue observed the rules and kept her distance from Song Yanci, maintaining the proper relationship between a younger brother's wife and her husband's elder brother. Even when he occasionally showed concern for her, she coldly turned him away. Later, her husband was named crown prince and summoned back to Song. Jiang Zhiyue went with him as the crown princess. As soon as they reached Song territory, her husband was murdered by villains, leaving no body behind. Jiang Zhiyue fainted from grief. When she woke, she was in Song Yanci's bedchamber. Before she could speak, Jiang Zhiyue leaned over the bed and retched uncontrollably. The warmth usually in the man's eyes was edged with coldness. He gripped her wrist so hard it hurt. "You and him... When did you start sleeping together?" Song Yanci's voice was hoarse, as though his throat were soaked in blood. * [Bonus scene] Song Zhiling remained unconscious after he was found. The imperial physician said only umbilical cord blood could save him. But Jiang Zhiyue and his child was already more than a hundred days old. On a cold autumn night, Jiang Zhiyue sat by the bed, wiping him down. Suddenly, the door opened slightly, and a figure in imperial yellow appeared outside. The man who had ascended the throne strode toward the bed, the pitch-black night behind him, then slowly crouched and slipped his fingers beneath her sash. Jiang Zhiyue bit her lip and instinctively tried to push him away. "You've already signed the divorce papers. Why are you still saving yourself for him?" Song Yanci lifted her and set her on the bedside cabinet. In the gentlest voice, he whispered in her ear: "Be good, A-Yue. Zhiling and I have the same mother. We need to save him, don't we? If you keep refusing to cooperate, when will you get pregnant with my child?" 1. The heroine has only been with the hero, but the hero has been with others. Her first child is with the hero's younger brother. 2. While married to the second male lead, the heroine and the male lead have no romantic involvement. Coming soon 2: Startled Branches Shen Zhiyi came from a distinguished family. She was spoiled and headstrong, so much so that even her commandery princess mother couldn't do a thing with her. The only person who could keep her in line was her childhood sweetheart, Pei Shaoxuan. During the Lantern Festival, Shen Zhiyi carried a rabbit lantern she'd made herself and went to the Pei residence, blushing as she planned to confess her feelings. But in a corner, she saw Pei Shaoxuan holding another woman tenderly in his arms. Fireworks burst across the sky. Amid the noise and crowds, the rabbit lantern slipped from Shen Zhiyi's hand and was devoured by the flames. That same night, the Shen residence went up in flames. The whole family was arrested. The men were executed, and the women were forced into prostitution. The one who led the raid was none other than Pei Shaoxuan's father, the Marquis of Xuanyang. - In the end, Pei Shaoxuan brought Shen Zhiyi to live at the Pei residence. But after enduring so much hardship, Shen Zhiyi was no longer the radiant, spirited girl she'd once been. She became timid and fearful, lowering her eyes before everyone in the Pei household and asking only to be allowed to scrape by and survive. But even this cautious existence was completely upended the day she was diagnosed as pregnant. That day, despite her morning sickness, she made Pei Shaoxuan a bowl of soup herself. She waited from dawn until late at night, hoping to tell him the happy news that he was going to be a father. Instead, she heard the Pei household was about to welcome a new heir's wife. - Pei Shaoxuan, heir to the Marquis of Xuanyang, was handsome and easygoing, yet dignified and dependable. Among the young men of the capital, he was a rare talent and highly esteemed by the emperor. The only rebellious thing he'd ever done was take Shen Zhiyi, his former childhood sweetheart and the daughter of a disgraced official, as a concubine. He knew full well that her status made her unfit to be his wife, so when his teacher came to entrust his daughter to him, he agreed to take her in. Pei Shaoxuan looked at Shen Zhiyi's once-bright face, now changed, and gently reassured her: "The heir's wife is gracious and knows proper conduct. She surely won't begrudge you. There's no need to be afraid. Think of her as another lady of the household; everything else can stay as it is." Shen Zhiyi still wore the same timid expression. She smiled and agreed, showing none of her old willfulness or arrogance. Pei Shaoxuan drew her into his arms and secretly breathed a sigh of relief where she couldn't see him. But less than two days later, a fire broke out in the rear courtyard of the Marquis of Xuanyang's concubine. The flames soared into the sky, identical to the blaze that had once consumed the Shen residence. Theme: Respect is the basic rule for winning love.