The Palace Maid's Talk About the Past

Within the palace, she was called "Rong'er", while the Empress Dowager Cixi affectionately called her "Rong". This girl entered the palace at the age of thirteen and became Empress Dowager Cixi's personal maid for eight years. Until the age of eighteen, she married an eunuch under the arrangement of Cixi. Since then, with the changes of the times, her fate has been like a floating duck, experiencing ups and downs and sadness. She is often unwilling to touch that period of the past easily. However, after establishing a deep emotional bond and foundation of trust with the authors Jin Yi and Shen Yiling, she gradually opened up and told the secrets of the palace that had been sealed for a long time, including the trivial details of the daily life of the palace maids, the living habits of the "Lafayette" of Empress Dowager Cixi, and anecdotes about the life of Emperor Guangxu that were rarely heard by the outside world, and even revealed the true situation of the eunuchs who suffered humiliation and hardship within the palace walls. These precious oral histories fill the gaps in official historical records and enrich people's understanding of court life in the late Qing Dynasty. Their fascinating content has both historical value and literary charm. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.