Reborn as a Palace Maid, I Seduce the Emperor and Defy Fate

[Palace intrigue + rising through the ranks + transmigrating into a book + seducing her way to power + a heroine who isn’t a selfless saint]

Duan Mingyue was an online novelist who accidentally died after staying up all night writing.

She woke up inside the novel she had written, as Wanhua, a low-ranking palace maid constantly abused by the villainous Consort.

Bullied by her colleagues and treated unfairly, she remembered Wanhua’s gruesome fate.

To save her own life, she decided to seduce Emperor Xiao Yinchen and climb into his bed, becoming a Talented Lady.

To make her path ahead smoother, she approached Bai Xiyan, the heroine she had created, and became her friend.

The two women supported and comforted each other in the palace, a cesspool of intrigue.

As the author of the novel, she had thought that if she followed the plot and helped Bai Xiyan rise to power, she could enjoy an easy life.

But as time passed, she realized that many things had never appeared in the book.

With no other choice, she had to stay on her toes and deal with whatever came her way. Yet, quite unexpectedly, she found her way into Xiao Yinchen’s heart and became his favorite concubine in every sense.

“Throughout my life, I gained many things and lost many things. In the end, I was nothing but utterly alone...”

(Not a story where both leads are each other’s first love; set in an imaginary dynasty.)