The Little Palace Maid Is Reborn and Rises to Power Again

Xiao Qianwei is the lowest-ranking palace maid in the imperial palace. She has a beautiful face, but just as she resigns herself to serving as a slave for the rest of her life,

Emperor Shen Xu takes her to his bed, and she becomes pregnant.

But her good fortune doesn't last. Not long after giving birth to Shen Xu's only child, Xiao Qianwei dies suddenly under mysterious circumstances.

After her death, her son becomes a tyrant.

In the end, the dynasty falls, and she too is branded with infamy, cursed by the people. It is terribly unfair.

Given another chance, Xiao Qianwei is reborn as a lowly palace maid in the Yeting Palace.

As she looks around her shabby quarters and starts planning for her future, she discovers that she is already pregnant.

From then on, Xiao Qianwei devotes herself to raising her baby, making up for not having raised him herself in her previous life.

She puts more and more of her heart into raising him, until she can hardly be bothered to seek the emperor's favor.

Shen Xu summons her to attend him in the palace chambers, but Xiao Qianwei pretends to be sick.

Shen Xu wants to go flower-viewing with her, but Xiao Qianwei complains that the sun is too strong.

Even on her birthday, when Shen Xu makes a special trip to keep her company and hopes to spend some tender moments together, he finds that she has already gone off to sleep with her son.

Xiao Qianwei thinks that Shen Xu has always been proper and upright, and has never paid her much attention. She means little to him. If she hadn't given birth to his only heir, he probably wouldn't have looked twice at someone of such low birth.

She doesn't want her and her baby to become targets of the other women in the harem either. Staying safe and sound is what matters most.

Given another chance, she is determined to set him straight and raise her baby into a good boy!

Then one day, after she'd repeatedly turned him away from her bedchamber, Shen Xu kicks open the palace door and barges in.

He sees Xiao Qianwei holding the child and speaking softly, yet she only gestures for him to be quiet.

Shen Xu, who has been neglected by Xiao Qianwei for days, points at the bundle in her arms, grips her shoulder, and asks coldly, "Have you forgotten me for his sake?"

He casually sets the child down in a corner of the big bed. The curtains fall, and he won't let her get away so easily again.

In the middle of the night, the child sleeps restlessly. With her back aching, Xiao Qianwei struggles to get up and soothe him, but the man beside her, who seems to be asleep, grabs her ankle and pulls her back toward him.

He smiles. "So you weren't asleep?"

The child begins to cry. The more anxious she gets, the more forceful he becomes.

Only then does Xiao Qianwei realize that Shen Xu, the wise ruler praised by the world, has a brooding, sinister side too.

She looks at her baby and falls into thought.

Could the baby's future behavior have come from Shen Xu, too?

*Rebirth + raising a child + palace intrigue. The male lead has a mad streak that the female lead will bring out in this life.

Theme: Correct past mistakes and make up for regrets