I Become a God in the Deep Palace Thanks to My Sharp Tongue

Yao Ying, a modern-day office drone, wakes up inside a Qing palace transmigration novel as a low-ranking palace maid who dies in the opening scene. She catches Head Eunuch Wang Dequan poisoning the Crown Princess. Just as he is about to snap her neck and dump her in a well, she blurts out in desperate terror, “May you fall and break your rotten eunuch neck!” The moment the words leave her mouth, Wang Dequan really does trip on his belt and land face-first in the dirt, spilling the poisonous powder hidden in his robes all over himself! She barely has time to celebrate her escape before she’s caught up in a guard’s investigation into the source of the poison and the Crown Princess’s “miscarriage,” a piece of palace gossip. In a panic, she blurts out, “Crown Princess, take care of the imperial heir!” Her ill-fated words expose the Crown Princess’s enormous scheme to fake a pregnancy and win favor! The Crown Prince is furious, and in an instant, a blade is at her throat!

From then on, Yao Ying is trapped in the whirlpool of the Eastern Palace. Her uncanny “jinx,” which makes her words come true but with random, uncontrollable results, is both a lucky charm that saves her by sheer accident in desperate situations, cursing guards into filthy ditches, exposing false account books hidden in secret compartments, and forcing out a pouch of deadly poison; and a blade hanging over her head, accidentally setting off the explosives hidden on Wang Dequan, implicating Li Qiunian, the Governor-General of Jiangnan, and even exposing ironclad proof that the Crown Prince’s confidant has colluded with the enemy! From being dismissed as a superstitious, witchlike maid to becoming a taboo in the palace whose very name makes the court’s nobles tremble, Yao Ying is forced to navigate between the cold, ruthless Crown Prince, the deranged Crown Princess, powerful families with their own agendas, and the remnants of the former dynasty. By sheer accident, she becomes embroiled in the unsolved mystery of the former dynasty’s Jianwen Emperor’s jade seal. The appearance of the “Heaven-Ordained Treasure of the Mandate to Pacify the Heavens and Suppress the Rebellion” unleashes decades of buried bloodshed and turmoil.