Concubine Chu Wanning, one of the first and yet unloved concubines of an emperor, forced into the cold palace because she's never given the emperor children... and the newest addition to the harem, Mo Ran, who stumbles upon a treasure hidden within the palace.
Young favored concubine Mo Ran who dotes on her jiejie~ Chu Wanning is convinced that Mo Ran only visits her to mock her. Why else would someone so favored by the emperor keep barging into the cold palace?
I need MR to whisper in Chu Wanning’s ear that she can show her what being favored by their husband is like if her jiejie just says yes. Dragging her finger across the sharp profile of Chu Wanning, she lowers hers eyes. "You must be so lonely here, won't you let meimei help you?"
Mo Ran uses the gifts the emperor spoils her with to doll up Chu Wanning... expensive makeup and jewelry, she always makes Wanning sit there while she decorates her brow with a huadian, drapes her in jade and gold. Even her own clothes, which Mo Ran dresses Chu Wanning up in like a doll.
At one point Chu Wanning says she feels more Mo Ran's concubine than the emperor's, and something alights in Mo Ran's eyes, possessive. Hungry.