The Maid in His Bed Is a Little Sweet

“Please me.”

Su Yaoyao bites her lip, tears in her eyes. A finger lifts her chin, and she meets the man's amused gaze.

From then on, she rises from obscurity to become the cherished darling of the powerful minister Xie Xiuzhi, spending every night in his arms.

*

Everyone knows that the powerful minister Xie Xiuzhi is ruthless, keeps women at a distance, and cares only for power.

But no one knows that after nightfall, he sheds his usual coldness, grips the little maid by the waist, and tenderly calls her “Yaoyao.”

Su Yaoyao comes from a lowly background. She knows she and Xie Xiuzhi are worlds apart, yet she can only fall for him with her eyes open, trapped in the man's tenderness.

But...

“She's just a maid, a plaything.”

The man speaks coolly inside the room as he discusses marriage with a friend. Outside, Su Yaoyao covers her mouth, trembling all over. She leaves a letter of congratulations for his wedding and walks away without hesitation.

What she doesn't know is that after she leaves, the man stares at the ashes scattered across the ground, nearly driven mad.

After leaving, she is found by the Duke's household and becomes everyone's darling. She no longer has to pine over a man.

Su Yaoyao finally lets go. The gentle scholar before her blushes and says firmly, “I am willing to treat your child as my own. I only hope you will give me a chance.”

Just as the little rice-ball child she's holding calls the scholar “Papa” in a clear, sweet voice, the man who has been hiding for so long can take no more. He drops the sword in his hand, rushes out, grabs her, and says with bloodshot eyes, “Yaoyao, you don't want me anymore?”