Good news: Wei Yingluo died peacefully of old age.
Even better news: She came back to life, and this time she's a ghost.
The worst news: She drifted into a strange world called Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace. Here, the empress is always saying, “I have nothing to say,” but meddles in everyone else's business more than anyone. One talented lady calls sweet potato cake “shao nian lang.” Another concubine keeps quoting, “On horseback, lovers gaze at each other from afar.” And there's an emperor who can only compliment people by saying, “May you live long and prosper.”
The most ridiculous part: The Wei Yingluo of this world isn't called Wei Yingluo. She's Wei Yanwan, crouching in Qixiang Palace scrubbing toilets. Jin Yuyan has renamed her “Ying'er” and slapped her to the floor.
Yingluo crouched beside the bucket and watched her for three seconds.
“Pathetic.”
She reached out and patted Yanwan on the shoulder. Yanwan looked up and screamed, tipping over the toilet. Jin Yuyan's nursemaid poked her head in to curse at them, while next door came the sound of Jin Yuyan smashing her face into a plate of grapes.
From that day on, Wei Yanwan had a ghostly big sister behind her, one only she could see, who helped no one but her. Sharp-tongued and hard-hearted, she nevertheless took every blow meant for Yanwan.
The two Wei women joined forces and turned the whole world of Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace upside down.
