I Don’t Seek True Love, Only to Survive—Yet the Emperor Favors Me

[A dark and possessive emperor x a sweet, well-behaved beauty | mutual purity | mutual salvation | raising/loving-from-young | both are hopeless romantics in mutual pursuit of each other~]

Jiang Yingli has spent four years as a concubine of Prince Su. Xiao Chenglanz of Prince Su is not interested in women, and she is the only concubine in his residence, so her days have been steady and carefree. She thought she could continue living like this, but unexpectedly, Prince Su ascended the throne.

She rose from a tiny prince’s concubine to the new emperor’s Jiabieyu, stepping directly into the imperial family by mistake.

The harem frightened Jiang Yingli. She did not want to compete for favor; she only wanted to stay far away from trouble and survive to the end. Unexpectedly, she did not compete for favor, yet the former Prince Su, now the new emperor, went out of his way to dote on her.

On her first day in the palace, he held her and sat her on the dragon throne; any concubine who got in her way was confined, beaten, or executed, and he even willingly let her ride in the imperial carriage while he walked beside it.

What should she do when being especially favored arouses jealousy? The emperor helps her with every harem struggle and blocks everything for her.

What should she do when her merchant background makes her status too low? The emperor sends her younger brother to train in the army, lets him earn military merit and be directly granted a marquis title, and she instantly becomes a high-born noble lady.

What should she do when the ministers urge him to establish an empress? The emperor says that she was raised by his own hand and only she can stand beside him, and resolutely makes her empress.

What should she do if she accidentally gives birth to the eldest imperial son? The emperor says that a child takes status from the mother; her child is crown prince from the moment he is born, and he issues the decree to a swaddled infant, shocking the ministers.

Jiang Yingli thought the harem was an abyss, and that the quiet days in Prince Su’s residence would never return, but Xiao Chenglanz still gave her the same limitless favoritism as before...

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How do two people who never received love in their youth fall in love?

One loves cautiously and carefully; the other loves obsessively and awkwardly.

Later, they become the exclusive favoritism recorded even in history books, and the young emperor whose deep love lasts a lifetime.