The Empress Is Always Sickly

[The Palace Lady Has Won the Emperor's Favor has started updating next door!] [Anti-piracy ratio: 70%. Extra anti-piracy chapters may be added if needed. They will be available after 72 hours.] The Tai family had two daughters. The elder was peerlessly beautiful and entered the palace as a consort when she came of age. But the younger daughter was never seen in public. When Tai Anyou was young, she fell gravely ill. Her parents sent her to recover at her maternal grandparents' home, where she lived in Quzhou for years. Then, when she was eighteen, news came from the capital: someone had harmed her sister, leaving her unlikely to bear children in the future. Tai Anyou was soon brought back to the capital. After being forgotten for ten years, the only reason she was brought back was to enter the palace and help her sister win the emperor's favor. Everyone called Tai Anyou a fool. They laughed that she was merely a pawn the Tai family was using to help her sister win favor. But no one knew that she had never done anything for her sister. Her supposed mission to win the emperor's favor for someone else was merely a smokescreen for her ambition. Someone had enjoyed their family's love for the first half of her life. Now it was someone else's turn to enjoy riches and glory in the second half. P.S. A palace intrigue story. The male lead isn't a virgin, so don't read if that bothers you. The heroine is a little stubborn, with slightly extreme ideas. P.P.S. The older sister isn't a villain. [The synopsis has been screenshotted] [My upcoming book, The Palace Lady Has Won the Emperor's Favor. Sisters, add it to your reading lists!] Synopsis: [The title and synopsis may change.] Chu Qingwan was born into a prestigious family, with a radiant and peerlessly beautiful appearance. She had a childhood sweetheart with whom she had grown up. Their families had long agreed that the two would marry. But before the Shen family could come to propose, news arrived from the palace: the Empress Dowager intended to choose consorts for the emperor, and all unmarried women of good family were to enter the palace for selection. In an instant, Chu Qingwan was faced with two choices: Continue with her engagement to the Shen family. Or enter the palace and compete to become a consort. That day, Chu Qingwan's father called her into his study, where she stayed for the whole day. On the day she entered the palace by imperial decree, Chu Qingwan caught a glimpse of someone she knew standing in the distance. She calmly looked away. She thought to herself that she really was a woman who loved wealth and status. In truth, on the day her father called her into his study, he had said only one thing to her: the throne of Empress was vacant. That was enough to make her choose at once. When Xu Yanheng first met Chu Qingwan, he knew she was clever. But he had never thought much of clever women. After all, Chu Qingwan was only a consort, not someone worth spending much effort on. Until he learned about the marriage that had almost taken place. Suddenly, he found himself wondering: When Chu Qingwan entered the palace by imperial decree, how much of it had been her own choice, and how much was because the emperor's command could not be refused? *Love may be indispensable, but someone as calculating as her has to see the benefits first before she is willing to give anything, and even then she gives sparingly. P.S. A palace intrigue story. The male lead isn't a virgin. Completed books in the same genre: The Noble Consort Rises All the Way to the Top The Palace Maid's Rise to Power The Little Palace Maid Wants to Rise Upcoming books in various genres: The Palace Lady Has Won the Emperor's Favor By: Call me vain if you like, but I must win myself a share of wealth and status. The Lady Is Ill By: In the end, which is better, the older brother or the younger brother? A Bewitching Nightmare By: Your sister-in-law, utterly unrestrained. A Mad Dog's Daily Life By: I know he loves me, but he chose this himself, didn't he? After Divorcing My Wife, I Was Reborn By: That man is so ugly. How could she possibly like him? Theme: If no one loves you, love yourself.