Chinese Novel Review 1

Pearl in the Palm

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Summary:
Ye Lizhu is a delicate beauty with the flesh of ice and bones of jade*. Having reached the age of marriage, yet no one dared to come and marry her.
(T/N: A woman with smooth and fair skin)

Everyone knows that Ye Lizhu’s body is weak- even when walking two steps away, she needs someone to support her. Moreover, the Prime minister loved and spoiled her to the heavens. If such a sick beauty is married home and wasn’t served well, he will definitely be killed by the ruthless Prime minister Ye.

Ye Lizhu also feels quite vexed, her body is getting worse day by day. When she was at peace with death, an indifferent man started coming to the Prime minister’s residence. The man is tall and jade*, with a cold appearance just like a celestial being, and looks at Ye Lizhu with frightening eyes.

(T/N: A handsome man with a good figure)

However, as soon as Ye Lizhu approached the man, her sickly body somewhat recovered. Once the man moved away, she couldn’t breathe easily.

Finally one day, Ye Lizhu pretended to fall down, thinking that she could preserve her life if she stays close to this man.

Prime Minister Ye, who feared nothing in Heaven or Earth, quickly grabbed his daughter and whispered in her ear: “This is the Regent, Prince Qin, who came to the capital with one hundred thousand to frighten the emperor. Baby girl, let’s try to find someone gentle and soft, don’t look at this evil god.”
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Later, the regent held poor little Lizhu in his arms: “Good, come closer.”
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Only the regent himself knew how long he’s liked this little beauty.

Review:
It's actually a good novel, the story is really sweet. Not much conflict, it mainly focus on MC and ML intimate relationship.
MC is sickly, she was sent to temple to recuperate from 5 yo. Her father loves her and visit her once on several years. MC father is the prime minister, MC has younger brother from the same mother. MC never saw her mother, she thought her mother didn't love her. When she go back to the residence, her father told the truth that her mother died when gave birth to her younger brother. MC father promote a concubine to become his second wife. The concubines and second wife never have children because MC father loves both his children. I pitied the second wife, it making me remember Greetings Ninth Uncle, where the MC was proposed to become second wife to take care the son from first wife. MC then said why she should marry him, even if he is a duke, handsome and wealthy, but she need to take care the heir who's not her son, be a good wife and manage the household, taking care his mother but she couldn't have her own child and can't be greedy for the heir position. I think it is similar to the second wife but she was already a concubine before becoming the second wife.
ML has title king, he was the younger brother of queen. The emperor is afraid of ML because he has a strong military army. The emperor prefer noble concubine so he is biased towards the second prince. The queen and ML protect the crown prince. At first ML thought to make MC marry the crown prince but once he saw MC, ML want to take her for himself.
When ML keep trying to get close to MC father, MC father thought he still want to make MC marry the crown prince.
MC is innocent or she just didn't care about etiquette since she is sickly, she got better when she is close to ML so she keep trying to have intimate relation with ML. They hug, sleep together even have sex before engagement. I thought ML is a bit scum and MC is a bit stupid mary sue. When ML said he would marry MC, MC felt guilty because she used ML to get better, she didn't know if she loves him, she reject ML but still want to have intimate relation. Then they keep having fluffy romance while concealing their relationship. ML tried to make MC father to agree with their marriage.
In the end MC married ML, ML helped the crown prince to trap the second prince then MC and ML went back to ML territory. After MC married ML, ML found out that MC father's second wife hired a monk to curse MC. ML make her confess to MC father, she also killed MC mother when she gave birth. MC father divorced the second wife. The crown prince was told to check on other witchcraft because ML heard someone also cursed the empress and crown prince, turns out it was the emperor.