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 #cdrama #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

The carriage pulled up at a high-end store belonging to the Sun family that Madam Yu had recommended to them. The girls and Tricky climbed out.

First Brother held each of the young women by the elbow as they walked down the carriage steps, holding them steady. Sofya smiled sweetly at him, "always the gentleman, Mei Renlong".

He smiled slightly and nodded at her.

The princess swept Meili into the store with all of the confidence of royalty, and the shop assistants responded in kind, rushing to serve them.

Bai Li motioned for two of the guards to wait at the front entrance while the other two covered the rear. He and First Brother entered the store with the young ladies and Tricky, trying, and failing, to look unobtrusive.

"Tricky, sit with First Brother," Meili ordered him, and he reluctantly loped off to sit at the feet of Mei Renlong, who now stood just inside the doors to the shop.

Retail Therapy