(I won't abandon this novel, but I'm too busy with real life to update more than once a month right now. Feel free to let it build up first.)
[Blurb]
Her mother died when she was young, and her only maternal uncle has vanished without a trace. Her father still carries a torch for his cousin, his first love. To keep his beloved and her daughter together, he bartered away his late wife's family’s safety and sent Nan Sui into the palace under Xu Baozhu's name.
Though young, Nan Sui is strikingly beautiful. The palace is home to an old eunuch with disgusting tastes, whose eyes are always fixed on her with hungry intent. Every night, she hides under the covers and sharpens her hairpin, waiting for the day the old brute makes his move so she can send him straight to hell.
Unexpectedly, fate brings her to the side of the eccentric young emperor.
One is a young palace maid with no one to rely on, whose rebellious streak gives her a stubborn will to live.
The other is a boy emperor without power or allies, nothing more than a puppet.
In the end, they support each other and survive in the depths of the palace.
And then? Then the court officials all branded her a wicked consort.
Nan Sui claps her hands. A wicked consort can do whatever she wants and still be in the right, can't she?
[A story about two little crazies running wild together in the deep palace]
Reader's Guide:
1. Both leads are virgins.
2. The heroine often doesn't want to think, she just wants to act. [Very little political intrigue]
3. The leads are both crazy. This is an alternate-history setting, so don't expect the history to hold up under scrutiny. To emphasize, it's an alternate setting with lots of authorial inventions.
4. The leads are young when they meet. Their romance only begins in earnest once they're adults.
5. Plant a bookmark today, and tomorrow it'll bear ten thousand, ten thousand, tens of thousands of words! [Please bookmark!]
Theme: When things go wrong, change direction and the road gets easier
