The Marquis's Pampered Concubine (Reborn)

In her previous life, Lu Hanci was the legitimate daughter of the family, but her birth mother died early, so she grew up on an estate in the countryside. When she finally returned to the family home, it was only because her stepmother wanted her to help her eldest sister, now the Duchess of Zhenguo, keep her husband's favor.

Everyone knew that although Duke Xie Shaoyu was handsome, he was cruel, sinister, and violent, hardly a suitable match.

Lu Hanci refused. But that night, after drinking the fruit wine her elder sister offered her, her face burned as if on fire, and her body no longer belonged to her.

After that night, she was taken as a concubine and never saw the light of day again.

By day, her elder sister tormented her.

At night, he possessed her without restraint, as if trying to erase every trace left on her body.

It wasn't until the new emperor ascended the throne and held a banquet in the palace that Hanci discovered she looked remarkably like the late imperial consort who had given birth to the new emperor.

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Reborn, Hanci secretly resolved to make everyone in the Duke's residence pay.

"Your Majesty," she said, her eyes like spring water, reaching out to hook a finger into his sash. "Please take pity on me."

His gaze was cold as ice. "Are you truly willing?"

No one knew he had waited far too long for this moment.

A ruler taking his minister's wife was inauspicious. So be it.

Reader's Guide:

Reader's Guide:

1. The second male lead becomes the endgame.

2. The heroine is not a virgin. In her first life she was an innocent, delicate flower; in her second, a black-hearted schemer. Whoever she wants dead, dies.

3. The second male lead is no good either. Everyone is a villain.

4. Includes household infighting and a little political scheming.

Blurb written on 2024.12.8

Theme: Love does not require pity. Equal love is only possible when both people stand as equals.