Assassinating the King of Qin

In his dreams, King Zheng of Qin used his ambition to keep a demon imprisoned.

He mobilized his troops and searched the six directions,

never knowing that at the break of dawn,

that wisp of a soul would return to the palace maid kneeling in a corner of his hall, serving him with a fan in hand.

…

Wei Lingyang was the most unremarkable palace maid in the Qin palace, but she harbored a world-shaking secret.

She could enter the dreams of the man destined to become the greatest emperor in history.

So, in her dull and tedious life as a palace maid, she found her one source of excitement: pestering him in his dreams.

She pinned him beneath her and watched him rage, helpless to do anything about her. She turned each transgression into a story, titled it "In the Palm of My Hand," and hoped to comfort all the lonely souls in the palace while making her name last through the ages.

She thought it was a secret known only to heaven, earth, and herself. She thought that the version of her who knelt in a corner of the hall by day, fan in hand, would never overlap with the brazen demon she became at night.

Under the King of Qin's strategy of drawing her deeper into the trap, she even came to believe for a time that she had truly conquered this emperor of the ages.

Until that night.

She lured him in and pinned him against her heart, unable to hide her smugness. Her heart pounded like a drum, giving everything away.

He abruptly lifted his head and stared straight at her with dark, penetrating eyes.

"What are you so pleased about?"

"I'm in your arms." His voice was low, edged with cold suspicion. "You're pleased, aren't you?"

…

Wei Lingyang, the famously honest woman of the Qin dynasty, a military engineer, and a beloved, powerful, and capable official all in one, used the knowledge she had accumulated before transmigrating to thrive in Qin. Her career soared, and her love life flourished too. With her golden finger that let her enter the King of Qin's dreams anonymously, she overpowered the king several times and recorded her experiences in the adults-only novel "In the Palm of My Hand."

But one day, a colleague reported her.

Relying on the fact that no one could understand simplified characters, Wei Lingyang slammed the table and cried, "Why are you pinning what you wrote on me? How malicious! I implore Your Majesty to execute him at once!"

King Zheng of Qin smiled faintly. "The Grand Historian compared them character by character. It is your handwriting, my dear."

Wei Lingyang changed her tune in an instant. "I wrote it to record Your Majesty's great achievements, so that future generations might admire Your Majesty's unrivaled bearing."

King Zheng of Qin: "If that's the case, should we make copies for every government office across the country, so they can all admire your masterpiece?"

Wei Lingyang replied, "That would be wonderful, wonderful."

She turned and fled for her life. At Hangu Pass, she found the Qin army arrayed in full force. King Zheng of Qin stood waiting, holding a carefully proofread copy of "In the Palm of My Hand" written in the official seal script of the Fengchang Bureau. "Wei Lingyang, you really do have two faces."

Theme: Be happy every day.