Story of Yanxi Palace: Yingluo and Hongli’s Book of Defying Fate

Consort Ling Wei Yingluo, who runs the Forbidden City with an iron hand, and the far-sighted Emperor Qianlong, Hongli, transmigrate to a bizarre parallel world. Though it is still the Forbidden City, absurdity lurks everywhere: Ruyi spends all day pouting and sulking, Empress Fucha is suspicious of everyone, Noble Consort Gao gets played like a fool, Consort Jia hides a knife behind her smile, Consort Chun is meek and timid, Attendant Wan is so detached she is practically invisible, and Attendant Hai blindly follows Ruyi. It is, in short, a low-budget version of palace intrigue.

Faced with this bizarre cast of concubines, Wei Yingluo rubs her temples. “Your Majesty, is your harem... possessed?” Hongli scowls. “I think we should have the imperial physicians examine them all at once.”

To set things right, Yingluo and Hongli have no choice but to join forces and reform the harem. Yingluo uses her sharp tongue and blunt approach to deal with the overly fussy, while Hongli uses the authority of the emperor to intimidate anyone plotting trouble. But as their investigation deepens, they discover that this world's distortion is somehow connected to something called “Ruyi Syndrome,” and the mastermind is lurking in the shadows, trying to overturn history once and for all...