After an accident, I was trapped by a System inside the drama Ruyi’s Royal Love in the Palace. The System assigns me a random character to transmigrate into, and I can only complete my mission and escape this prison by making the character’s life my own...
P.S. I’ve read many Ruyi’s Royal Love in the Palace fanfics, and they’re all very well written. I don’t have many original ideas of my own. I only want to rewrite the story so that the plot isn’t so cruel to so many people. I can’t write a feel-good power fantasy either. I don’t know how. I don’t believe anyone in the Forbidden City could change anything, so I haven’t given my characters an omniscient perspective or a script to exact revenge.
I never understood what feudalism and imperial power really meant. The more I write, the more I understand: they mean the oppression of human rights and the oppression of women. Possessing someone else’s body or being reborn can’t change anything. No one could make a difference. Even if the real Empress Fucha or Consort Ling were here, things would be the same. They could only huddle together for warmth in their own little corner. This is the light of humanity women show beneath imperial power.
I criticize Hailan and Ruyi. I didn’t write Yanwan making allies or getting involved in their causes because I believe she could face any situation and stand on her own. Sadly, this is a feudal age, deep within the palace. She can’t fight back. Women who help women and women who persecute women alike cannot escape imperial power and ritual norms. That inability to stand apart from them is what makes me feel truly helpless.
I don’t know how to write this, but my purpose remains the same: if they must lose everything, then please give them a little more warmth in this life whose end they can already see.
I originally wrote this story just for myself. If it has left you with a bad impression, I’m truly sorry.
