[Maid + Palace Sisters + Ensemble Characters with a Plot-Driven Story] [Female Lead is a Native, No Time Travel/Rebirth, No Hidden Identity]

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After his mother passed away, his father immediately married a new woman.

Meng Shu endured years of hardship under her stepmother's control, but ultimately could not escape the fate of being sold off.

The slave trader's ropes dragged her away from her homeland and threw her into the incredibly wealthy Tang family mansion.

She was selected to enter the household due to her exceptional talent and became the personal maid of the second young lady of the Tang family.

Madam Yun, the matriarch of the Tang family, was extremely skilled in planning and in bestowing favors. She survived in the mansion for four years. From then on, Meng Shu was no more, only her maid, Hua Yan, remained.

Soon after, the second young lady was ordered to enter the palace.

Deep within the palace gates, turbulent undercurrents surge. To protect her mistress in this desperate situation, and to carve out a path to survival for herself, Meng Shu (Hua Yan), as a "selected concubine," steps into the golden cage.

However, the imperial harem was by no means a warm and loving sisterhood.

Here, there is fighting without gunpowder, and scheming behind smiles.

Meng Shu (Hua Yan) was born with a photographic memory, and she is meticulous and plans things out before acting.

She is by no means a kind and easily deceived saint; when faced with life-or-death situations, she can also reveal a terrifying ruthlessness.

She navigated the quagmire of power and survival with utmost caution.

Behind the heavy curtains of the palace, the understanding, alliances, and mutual assistance among women, like vines quietly growing in dire straits, became another source of strength for her survival.

From a lowly maid to a palace attendant, and finally to the position of Empress, how will she protect those she wants to protect and carve out her own bloody path in this cannibalistic palace?

Everything is just beginning...

Singing while riding a horse, young and handsome. When her eyes laid their first glance at him, she knew that in this lifetime, this youth would not walk out of her heart.

She’s the young lady of the General’s Manor. When the enemy country invades, her father was called upon in desperation and hurries to the battlefield. She secretly followed her father to battle. When her father and brothers were injured, she struck back with a series of tactics and won over the enemy’s army.

The enemy had retreated, the empire’s land was protected, the Emperor was very happy, and heavily rewarded the General’s Manor.

While she was returning to the Imperial City, she overhears that the Emperor and Empress Dowager want to select a man from the Imperial City’s Manors to marry Lady Su of the General’s Manor.

Before her, she has 3 elder brothers, but unfortunately no sisters.

From the gossips, in the Imperial City there are two men, who are the top candidates for marrying her.

One is from the imperial family, royalty, always idle and only knows how to eat, sing, drink, and have fun. A prodigal who’s been raised crooked with no one to control him.

One is from the Guo-zhang (Emperor’s Father in Law) Manor, whose talent is spread throughout the Imperial City, his name known throughout the kingdom. He is the Xiao Guo-jiu (Emperor’s Little Brother In Law) who has all the ladies rushing towards him like ducks.

【MyGO!!!!!】+【Ave Mujica】＋【Shoko Single Female Lead】

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The real Shoko Toyokawa should not be a [doll].

Let me give a satisfactory answer to the world I love.

Let me give Shoko Toyokawa and the [Solar Dolls] a new life.

【Love simulator, at your service】

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While in Japan, Nan Yuxi got a love simulator.

What's the point of a fake mock? He originally dismissed it.

Until he discovers that he can acquire the skills honed in the Sims and, through the simulations, learn about the future.

Simulating a relationship is so much fun!

The silly and ugly eldest lady of the Meng family jumped into the river for a man.

Knowing that she was not dead, everyone disliked it: she was about to do it again after a thousand years of harm.

She is a writer, but she is only one person.

“My husband, my legs are soft, I want to hug.”

“Husband, my mouth hurts and I want to kiss.”

The silly daughter is not ugly anymore! Also known as the “goddess”.

Stupid daughter is not stupid anymore! Look at her unscrupulous, sharp face.

Wait, who is the man holding the silly daughter? She actually empathized and fell in love!

“Hehe, apart from having a good skin, that man is a soft food.”

“Married to the daughter of the Meng family, can save more than ten years of struggle.”

“What kind of pot goes with what kind of lid.”

No, isn’t that man the richest man in the world?

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The first year after marriage-

“Husband, you look so good-looking. Mua!” Mrs. Mu groaned coquettishly.

“You stop, don’t come over!” Mr. Mu couldn’t resist such enthusiasm.

The second year after marriage-

Mr. Mu was wronged: “Wife, look at me.”

Mrs. Mu waved her hand impatiently: “What’s so good about you? Don’t stop me from looking at Xiao Xianrou.”

“You didn’t say that at the beginning.”

“So how important it is to be knowledgeable.”

“…”

Eric, the son of a blacksmith, refuses to be ordinary. Armed with his hand-forged dagger, he forms the Spark Mercenaries and embarks on a perilous adventure. From a small border town to the turmoil of four continents, he forges a path through time, forging his own path into a legendary warrior. Amidst the flames and smoke, he writes his own epic and heartfelt story.

In her previous lifetime, they had married for five years. He meant everything to her, but she was thrown away like an old shoe.

After her rebirth, she gave him a divorce contract preemptively—

“Divorce after one year, the terms of the contract are as follows: husband and wife shall not share a room or bed. Intimacy forbidden?”

He raised his eyebrow.

Who knew that after she got drunk one day, leaning on the headboard, he rested his deep-set eyes on her. “You broke the contract, Mrs, Li.”

The Reticent Blade is, first and foremost, a wuxia novel, meaning that the world and its character’s powers and abilities are more grounded. Instead of cultivators who can soar through the heavens and shatter planets, you will find martial artists who can still perform superhuman feats but not so fantastical as to tear through space or achieve immortality.

The world of The Reticent Blade is one of medieval China, loosely based upon the time period of the Ming Dynasty. It is a time of chaos and strife, where war and death are rampant. We follow the intertwining story of several protagonists and antagonists as they navigate the chaotic times, unraveling the threads that connect the past, the present, and the future of the world.

The Reticent Blade is a story of heroism, love, revenge, and cruelty.

The Reticent Blade is a story of both the righteousness and vileness of the Jianghu.

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Official Blurb:

Someone once asked me, "What is the jianghu?"

I thought for a moment, and what came to mind was…

A jug of unrefined wine on a weathered table,

A lone silhouette fading into the distance under the setting sun,

A nameless grave bathed in moonlight,

The smoldering incense in my grasp, its final wisps dissipating.

They then asked me, "Where is the jianghu?"

I smiled faintly and lifted my gaze beyond the window. Out there, beneath the vast heavens, countless jianghus lay.

A single soul carries his own story.

When two paths cross, a jianghu is born.

The father finished himself by jumping off the building, and the mother fell and became a vegetable. After that, Zhong Zhen was forced to raise a massive amount of medical expenses for surrogacy. She slept with a strange man, successfully making herself pregnant. Later she gave birth to a pair of babies. Yet she was in pain again without knowing the reason! It turned out that there was still a baby left! She was overjoyed and left the city behind along with that remaining baby. She only dared to return in three years. Most unexpectedly, the machine of fate was to run again…

Ban Xingyuan, who has always just wanted to study mathematics and history quietly, never expected that he would always be inexplicably involved in the entertainment industry. Fortunately, such inexplicable things did not affect his academic research. On the contrary, the entertainment industry was turned upside down by his various unconstrained magical operations to the people who were stirring up. The greatest pride of his life was not his academic achievements, nor those relatives and friends who shined in the entertainment industry with his unintentional help, but the Chinese spirit that he deserved to be passed down to him by his grandfather.