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

Even though Meili knew this day would come, after all, she had turned down Bai Li's betrothal offer in order to allow the man to make a love match, yet now that that day was here, it seemed to hurt more than it should.

The hurt was compounded by the fact that the Emperor was just randomly choosing the man a wife, without Bai Li caring for the girl at all.

The Emperor stole a sly glance at Miss Mei. The girl could hide nothing. Pain was written all over her face.

Bai Li, on the other hand, kept his face unmoving.

"May I speak with you alone, my Lord?" he asked.

Aha! Here it was! The Commander might be able to hold his face and his tongue steady, but despite that, here was his weakness after all. He looked forward to hearing what the fellow had to say to him…

"Yes, yes of course Commander. Leave us," the Emperor indicated to his sons and Miss Mei to vacate the throne room.

The Faustian Bargain