Bestowed Upon the Eastern Palace

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[Tsundere little-sun noblewoman × sharp-tongued, aloof Crown Prince] Marriage first, love later~

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The Gu family is one of the most renowned aristocratic houses in the capital, and the eldest daughter, Gu Shuchen, is famed as the capital's most pampered young lady.

On the day Gu Shuchen came of age, red proposal cards flooded the city. But they were no match for a single gold-embossed imperial decree from the palace.

The capital's renowned, alluring noblewoman became a canary caged in the Crown Prince's residence overnight.

Watching Gu Shuchen's phoenix carriage head for the Eastern Palace, everyone lamented that a precious pearl had been cast before swine. The Gu family's only daughter, peerlessly charming, had been forced to marry the Crown Prince, a man as cold as ice who kept women at a distance. From now on, she could only stand afar, waiting for his favor, until she withered away in the palace.

The entire palace wagered on when this consort, famed for her bewitching charms, would fade away.

Then, on the Lantern Festival, the people of the capital watched in astonishment as the famously aloof heir to the throne breathed warmth onto a pair of delicate hands dusted with sugar.

Everyone in the capital knew the Eastern Palace's Crown Prince, Shen Jiangshi, had three great taboos:

First, the scent of cosmetics. Second, the colors of hairpins and ornaments. Third, beautiful women coming within three inches of him.

Until that night, when a petite young woman clutching a sugar figurine crashed right into his arms.

Crumbs from the sugar figurine stuck to his clothes. Looking at the radiant Gu Shuchen, he was displeased and walked away with his attendants.

When the imperial decree of marriage arrived at the Gu residence, Shen Jiangshi remained unmoved.

He had no interest in love. Gu Shuchen would be just another woman left alone in his household.

Shen Jiangshi thought that if he provided her with good food and drink, she would not develop any other ideas, would she?

But after Gu Shuchen entered his residence, something seemed to go wrong with her. Every ten days or half a month, she would make a scene in front of him.

Yet she could not even manage something as simple as vying for his favor.

Just as he was preparing to give her some pointers, Gu Shuchen suddenly stopped making a fuss and went quiet.

Shen Jiangshi waited and waited, but she made no move. Since she would not come to him, he had to go ask her himself.

But when he entered her courtyard, he saw four or five military manuals fluttering beneath a parasol tree. The young woman sat swinging her feet atop a sword case, smiling with two little dimples.

It turned out his consort was a little liar who said one thing and meant another.

Both leads are each other's one and only. Happy ending.

A sweet little romance. The heroine gets married in Chapter Six.

Of course, the position of Crown Princess belongs to the heroine~

The heroine won't stay weak forever. She has a growth arc.

The hero is head over heels for her.

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One-on-one romance, both leads reborn / the hero pursues his wife after losing her / happy ending

In her previous life, Ling Shunsheng was sentenced to death.

As the highest-ranking of the nine consorts, she was trapped in a remote, cold courtyard with a leaking roof. The palace servants treated her with contempt, the other consorts mocked her, and even the lowliest eunuchs could kick her while she was down.

Only when poison tore through her insides did she see the truth:

The emperor who loathed her to the bone looked at her body lying in a pool of blood with disgust and relief in his eyes.

When she opened her eyes again, she had returned ten years into the past, still a palace lady-in-waiting by the Empress Dowager's side.

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Remembering her tragic death in her previous life, Ling Shunsheng had nothing left in her heart but hatred.

Born into a distinguished family and the Empress Dowager's own niece, she had a gentle, timid nature and had become someone others could walk all over.

Given another life, she decided to live differently.

On the first day after being reborn, she pushed the Noble Consort who had tormented her most into a lotus pond.

On the second day, she used a gold hairpin to slash the sycophantic face of the eunuch serving before the emperor until it was a bloody mess.

On the third day, at a palace banquet, she