Lin Xiaoman is an utterly ordinary community mediation officer. Every day, she handles divorces, arguments, and mother-in-law versus daughter-in-law battles. Her life is duller than plain water.
Then one day, four ancient imperial consorts suddenly moved into her mind.
Consort Wu, hot-tempered and ready to curse anyone who crossed her;
Consort Zhen, gentle and long-suffering, with an uncanny understanding of people;
Noble Consort Chun, a gifted poet who could put anyone in their place with verse;
and Lady Liu, who had never spent a single day as a consort and did nothing but talk nonsense, yet somehow always hit the mark by accident.
From then on, Lin Xiaoman's life spiraled completely out of control.
With Consort Wu taking over, she slams the table, tears into a cheating jerk, and forces him to sign away everything on the spot;
with Consort Zhen taking over, she gently comforts an abused wife and brings a lost soul to their senses with a single sentence;
with Noble Consort Chun taking over, she writes a poem to make peace, goes viral overnight, and lands on the trending list;
with Lady Liu taking over, she goes on about “saving marriages by washing dishes” and makes quarreling couples laugh their way into making up on the spot.
Other mediators rely on the law. She relies on the imperial harem dream team.
Other people go to work to do their jobs. She goes to work while ancient consorts clock in and take over.
Her mediation success rate soars from 30% to 85%. Her boss calls her a genius, the public calls her a miracle worker, and only she knows that if this keeps up, she'll end up committed to a mental hospital sooner or later.
When the petty squabbles of everyday life meet the schemes of the ancient imperial palace;
when a modern mediator is taken over in turn by four imperial ladies;
a hilarious, heartwarming, and rousing mediation drama is about to begin.
The perfect cure for unhappy marriages, family conflicts, and life's injustices.
You never know who's going to speak next: a noble consort, a consort, a palace lady, or that scatterbrained Lady Liu.
