His Majesty Is Hard to Appease, So I Won't

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Miaozhu was once a lowly palace maid. Apart from the matron who had raised her, everyone felt free to trample her.

By a twist of fate, she was chosen to serve as the emperor's personal maid.

Chen Huaiheng ascended the throne as a teenager. He was cold, mercurial, and extremely difficult to serve.

She never complained and continued to work diligently, obeying his every command. She let him tease and mock her, fussed over him, and cared about him more than she cared about herself.

Until one day, Chen Huaiheng's beloved returned from outside the palace. Miaozhu was framed for pushing her into the water. Chen Huaiheng confronted her with a menacing glare and gave her thirty strokes of the cane.

Those thirty strokes shattered Miaozhu's world.

After that, her heart turned cold, and she stopped placing her hopes in him.

*

Later, the Grand Empress Dowager said she could grant Miaozhu one favor.

Overjoyed, Miaozhu immediately said, "This servant wants a title."

Chen Huaiheng, standing nearby, thought she wanted to become his consort. Though he wasn't pleased by her ambition, there was a smile in his eyes that even he didn't notice.

She had served him for so long. Granting her a title would be reasonable enough.

But the little palace maid whose eyes had always been filled with him named another man instead. She said, "This servant is bold enough to ask for a title that would allow her to stay by Prince Xie's side."

- The male lead is a virgin in both body and heart.

- Set in a fictional dynasty.

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Synopsis: Song Xingyue was born into a humble family. The only thing she had going for her was her face. Nothing else in her life could be called fortunate.

Yet she ended up marrying into the Duke's estate and becoming the heir's wife after accidentally sleeping with him.

Xie Linxu was born into nobility. Handsome and elegant, he was already famous as a young man. He was an unattainable moon in the sky, the refined and incomparable heir of the Duke's estate.

The heir, who should have had a perfect marriage, was forced to marry her and treated her coldly afterward.

Song Xingyue knew Xie Linxu didn't like her, but after marrying him, she only wanted to live a good life. She didn't take his coldness and distance to heart, and continued to greet him with a smile, hoping that one day she could bear him a child or two and that life would get better.

But he brought home a woman to whom he had been engaged in his youth.

When she confronted Xie Linxu through tear-blurred eyes, he merely said coolly, "Isn't this what you wanted? If you can't stand it, then we can divorce."

Hearing that, Song Xingyue completely lost faith in Xie Linxu.

*

Before their wedding, Xie Linxu had personally seen Song Xingyue seducing another man. He knew she was calculating and fickle.

But he had assumed that after scheming her way into the Duke's estate, she would never leave.

Until one day, at a spring banquet, he saw her laughing and chatting with another man.

He hadn't seen her smile like that in a long time. After they returned home, the two of them had a quarrel.

But Song Xingyue returned his own words to him, unchanged. She smiled and said, "If you can't stand it, then let's divorce."

Seeing the distant smile on his wife's face, Xie Linxu felt regret for the first time.

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