Su Wanqing transmigrates into a palace-intrigue novel. She expects to have to proceed cautiously, tread carefully, and fight tooth and nail in the inner palace. But once she enters the palace, she discovers that everything has gone completely off the rails.
The empress has no interest in competing for the emperor's favor. She spends all day absorbed in gardening and snacking on sunflower seeds. The imperial consort is devoted to researching delicious food, and the Imperial Kitchen is constantly being prodded to come up with new recipes. Even the emperor, rumored to be deep and calculating, turns out to love sneaking off to the imperial garden to play chess and slack off, only to keep getting caught by his consorts.
While others poison and frame each other in palace struggles, these women compete at cooking, come up with creative antics, and team up to complain about the Palace Administration Bureau.
Su Wanqing had planned to keep a low profile and get through her days in peace. But with her innate talent for comedy, she always manages to accidentally throw every "grand palace-intrigue conspiracy" into chaos.
Plots that should have been tense, high-stakes battles for favor invariably turn into farcical spectacles.
There are no deadly schemes at every turn, just a group of imaginative palace players having a good time in the imperial palace.
Crises do crop up now and then, but the whole group is committed to optimistic slacking off and gleefully sabotaging one another.
Join Su Wanqing as she laughs her way through the palace's absurd antics, discovering all sorts of eccentric friends along the way.
This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.
