Warmth Beneath the Lotus Canopy

As a bedchamber maid, Xu Wan only hoped to bear an heir soon so she could earn her freedom. But she had forgotten that a slave could never be free, even as a bedchamber maid. Especially when the man she served was Lu Yilang, the Southern Kingdom’s fearsome God of War, whose name alone could silence a crying child. He had always scorned love as a childish concern, and even took her pleas for mercy in bed as a ploy to win his favor. After paying a terrible price, Xu Wan finally saw the truth and faked her death to escape. But she didn’t know that her departure had driven him mad. He asked everyone he met, “Have you seen my Wanwan?”