The Maid's Road to the Clouds

Song Yun, an heir to a family of traditional Chinese medicine practitioners, dies suddenly and is reborn as a bedchamber maid in Prince Liang’s mansion. There’s an open secret in the household: the heir has been married for five years, but has no children. The princess consort announces, “Whoever bears the first son will be the next heir!”

The other bedchamber maids take turns slapping her. The secondary consort pours cold water over her and makes her kneel in the snow, while the heir’s wife brings over a bowl of safflower abortion medicine and tries to force it down her throat. Just as the bowl reaches her lips, a prompt sounds in her mind: [Medical Maiden System successfully bound. Spatial spirit spring unlocked.] Song Yun shoves the servant away and says coolly, “I’m pregnant! Who dares lay a hand on me?”

The entire mansion is thrown into chaos.

She uses the spirit spring to evade assassination attempts, saves the young heir with her medical skills, cures the princess consort’s migraines, and neutralizes the heir’s wife’s poison. The woman who once tried to force abortion medicine down her throat now kneels to thank her for saving her life.

A year later, she gives birth to twins, a boy and a girl, and is promoted to favored concubine. Three years later, she bears two sons and a daughter and is raised to secondary consort. Five years later, she bears three daughters and is elevated to equal wife. Seven years later, she gives birth to another set of boy-girl twins and takes her place as princess consort, having started as a mere bedchamber maid.

With ten children gathered around her, Prince Liang Shen Mohan’s eyes turn red. “Song Yun, we’ve had ten children together, but I still feel like you don’t love me.”

Song Yun looks at him calmly. “My lord, without love in my heart, I can draw my blade with ease. That’s how I’ve survived until today.”