The Little Palace Maid Is Deeply Favored

Coming Soon: The Noble Consort Alone Has the Emperor's Heart and The Beloved Consort Who Married Twice. Add them to your collection if you're interested.

Beautiful Palace Maid x Cold Emperor

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When Song Shutang was born, a fortune-teller said she was destined for wealth and honor above all others.

The Song family believed this completely. They spoiled and indulged her from childhood, hoping that if she rose to greatness, the whole family would rise with her.

But then disaster struck. The Song family became entangled in a crime punishable by beheading, and Song Shutang was sent to the palace as a servant.

She spent two years as a cleaning maid in the Office of Palace Affairs. Then one day, she laid eyes on the Son of Heaven.

The man's gaze fell on her face. He opened his lips and asked just one question: "What is your name?"

Song Shutang knew then that the fortune-teller had been right.

So she grasped this rope that could change her fate with all her might.

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Pei Hengyu never expected that a single fleeting glimpse in a covered walkway would bring him a spoiled little troublemaker to keep by his side.

What dismayed him was that this troublemaker only yearned for wealth and status, with no sign of affection for him at all.

Never mind. The inner palace is a cruel place. Let her enjoy herself a little while she can.

But he never expected that one day, he would willingly give her even the position of empress.

Harem rank system:

Empress

Four First-Rank Consorts: Noble Consort, Consort Shu, Consort De, Consort Xian

Second Rank: Consort

Upper Third Rank: Lady of Beautiful Deportment, Lady of Bright Deportment

Lower Third Rank: Lady of Cultivated Deportment, Lady of Graceful Deportment

Upper Fourth Rank: Noble Concubine

Lower Fourth Rank: Concubine

Upper Fifth Rank: Beauty

Lower Fifth Rank: Talented Lady

Upper Sixth Rank: Precious Forest

Seventh Rank: Imperial Lady

Eighth Rank: Chosen Lady

Those of Third Rank or higher may head a palace and be addressed as Your Ladyship. They may also raise princes and princesses on their own. Lower-ranking consorts may do so if they have the emperor's favor.

Reader's Guide:

1. The heroine is a virgin; the hero is not. This is a traditional palace intrigue story with three palaces and six courtyards. Don't set your moral standards for the leads too high.

2. There is no romance before the heroine reaches adulthood.

3. If anything is a dealbreaker for you, please don't read. No writing advice, please. The author will delete comments containing insults or attacks.

4. Please be civil and enjoy the story!

Another palace intrigue story in the same genre, The Noble Consort Alone Has the Emperor's Heart, is available to pre-order. Here's the blurb:

Liang Fu is the least favored concubine-born daughter of the Marquis of Changning's household. After enduring hardship for over a decade, she knows better than anyone that her fate is in her own hands.

The year she comes of age, the emperor holds a selection to fill the harem.

She makes a deal with her father.

When the selection is over, she gets her wish and enters the palace. Though she is only a Precious Forest of the sixth rank, she knows this is just the beginning.

In the palace, she is gentle and considerate toward the emperor, feigns civility with the other consorts, and treads carefully at every turn. In just a few years, she manages to rise to the position of head of a palace.

Everyone says she is favored by the emperor and has remained in his good graces. She only smiles. This is still far from enough.

What she wants has always been clear.

To claim the throne of the inner palace and become someone who stands above others.

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Newly enthroned and with his position still unstable, the emperor holds a selection only to balance the court. The new consorts are nothing but pawns.

Fu Qingheng navigates the palace, never revealing the emperor's true feelings.

Whom he favors and whom he neglects is all decided by a single thought.

But Liang Fu is different. She is beautiful and knows her place, gentle and considerate, never jealous of the others, and from a humble family.

She is a useful pawn, easy to handle and requiring little attention.

But at some point,

he begins to hate the very qualities in her that he once liked most.

He, too, begins to want her genuine love.

Theme: You create your own happy life.