ShuiShu

Meili is a once-in-a-generation beauty raised in secrecy in the inner courtyards. To keep her safe from the palace concubine selections, her family conspires to make everyone, including her, believe that she's ugly. The secret's revealed when 3 peeping Tom’s get more than they bargained for spying on the 'ugly sister' bathing.
The perverts are best friends, a young commander, the second prince, and an admired poet, and the 3 young men compete fiercely for her affections. As Meili emerges from 16 years in seclusion, her deeply rooted body dysmorphia has hilarious consequences as she misreads her interactions with men and proves to be a far more complex puzzle to woo than any of them are equipped for.
A cdrama romcom where a young girl is a glittering prize trying her hardest not to be won.
[#teen #lovequadrangle #historicalromance #romcom #chinesedrama #sweetromance] 
EXTRACT: Meili slipped out of her robe and sat on a ledge in the warm pool. Her long black hair cascaded down her back, tiny silver bells tinkled as she moved.
It felt wonderful to be free of her chest binding. It was starting to get quite painful. She didn't dare stop wearing it in case it encouraged her already disconcertingly large breasts to keep expanding.
It was onto this scene that the Commander, the Prince and the poet happened, as they soundlessly raised their heads above the peaked roofline. For a full minute not one of them moved or breathed.
Her long hair covered her generous curves, allowing tantalising glimpses. She reached behind her neck to push back her hair.
Commander Bai, realising what was about to happen, clamped each of his hands firmly over the eyes of the Prince and Tan Bowen. A fight broke out on the ridge-line as the men clawed and scratched in a panicked attempt to see what came next.
Meili looked up in fright, just as the commander forcefully pushed his two friends, sliding them down the steep rooftop.
For just a split second, the eyes of Commander Bai and Meili met.

Sharing a Pavilion With You

Meili at least was properly dressed on this occasion as Tan Bowen dropped into her courtyard a few days after the royal hunting trip. She had learnt the hard way not to treat her courtyard as a private space any longer.

It was late in the afternoon and Tricky opened a lazy eye at the young man, exhaling a quiet growl of displeasure.

"Tan Bowen!" Meili cried with delight. "This time I have missed you. What took you so long to visit me?"

"It's only been three days. Absence does make the heart grow fonder apparently," he smiled.

"My parents have trapped me back in the house after the royal hunt. I'm sooo bored. I must get out of here! Help me?"

"Your wish is my command, my lady," Tan Bowen bowed with a flourish, producing a mysterious package from behind his back. He passed it to Meili.

"Oooh, a present. What could it be?"

Wei Wei