Beneath the Lotus Canopy

[Fake Demure Lady × Truly Patient Eunuch] [Female Lead Is Not a Virgin; Male Lead Is + Forbidden Romance with Her Husband's Brother + Lust Before Love + Intense Push and Pull + HE] Before her wedding, Shen Zhining was renowned for her gentleness and refinement. After marrying into the Marquis of Yongning's household, she became the perfect noblewoman in everyone's eyes: modest, proper, and devoted to her wifely duties. After three years of marriage, her husband, Gu Heng, carried on with other women and kept a mistress. All he left her was a household full of rigid rules and greedy scheming. At the Palace of Endless Nights, a den of decadent pleasures, she shed her demure disguise and wanted only to indulge herself for once. Her husband's sworn brother caught her in the act. Amid the flickering candlelight, the young lord of the Duke of Ying's household, the most rakish and carefree man in the capital, bent close to her ear and murmured in a low, bewitching voice: "Want revenge on him? Why not choose me? Who in the whole capital could suit you better?" Their relationship began with reckless lust at first sight, then grew through countless nights of surging passion and tangled embraces. Later, they all gathered at a spring banquet. Liang Chengyu deliberately revealed the sash at his waist, drawing everyone's puzzled gaze to Shen Zhining. Her former husband, whom she had divorced months earlier, glowered and demanded, "Did Zhining embroider that herself?" Shen Zhining's expression was cool. "What does it have to do with you? A proper ex should be as good as dead!" Liang Chengyu smiled knowingly. "I'll give her what Brother Gu couldn't." Through the long nights, with no one to claim the moonlit pleasures, only you know my charms, and give me a passionate life to come.