The Prince Asks Every Day: Did the Concubine Win the Household War Today?

Shen Dingzhu, the capital’s most beautiful woman, spent her whole life as a stand-in for someone else’s beloved, trying to clear her family’s name. After years of ingratiating herself and winning favor, she died a horrible death by poison. Reborn, she found herself back on the day her family was doomed, about to be thrown into a military camp and forced into prostitution. Once again, she chose to rely on Xiao Langyan, knowing he would one day become the unrivaled ruler of the Nine Provinces and expand his realm. Only by using him could she save her parents and family, exiled to the northern deserts. But this time, she was different. She discussed benefits, terms, and life and death with him, but never love. She even helped him conceal his relationship with the woman he loved. She would do anything for him, except love him. Later, after Xiao Langyan ascended the throne, bloodlust in his eyes, he held up the head of the so-called woman he loved and asked her, “My beloved consort, which man is it that you can’t forget?”